The article, “Convicted Nazi who escaped justice dies in Germany,” (Sept. 25), made me angry. It described how Karl Muenter, a sergeant in a German SS division, was convicted of war crimes in absentia in France for killing 86 men in a French village during WWII. Muenter had fled to Germany by the time of the trial. The grandson of one of the men he and his division killed tracked him down in 2013; German prosecutors began to investigate him but could not pursue it because he could not be charged for the same crime again. During his later life he defended those killings on television. He also disputed the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and allied himself with Neo-Nazi groups.

I remember hearing Professor Elie Wiesel, the author and Holocaust survivor, speak at Connecticut College. He was asked if such a terrible thing as the Holocaust could happen again. He answered that yes, it could happen again anywhere if the conditions were ripe. Wiesel died in 2016. He became famous for his book, "Night." He was a Nobel Prize winner who spent the rest of his life fighting the oppression of victimized groups. He is my hero!

Claudia Shapiro

East Lyme