Oh, it's not that I don't feel that these couldn't have been great a loved people if they had taken a different turn earlier in their lives. It's just that I cannot empathize when someone like Eichmann or Himmler get what they deserve by walking the path they followed. I have far, far, more sympathy and sadness for the death of the Goebbels children than I do for their father. There is a "right" and a "wrong" and acting as some do is wrong -- and I don't care a fig if Hitler WAS good to Blondi. People must come first, and if you put yourself above others you are on the wrong path.

Granted, Ted Stevens was not in the same ball park, not even in the same country, as, say, Ilse Koch. Now he stands before whatever (if anything) comes after -- perhaps his means of death was his punishment.