Demjanjuk convicted over Nazi camp deaths

[bobbyw24]

Demjanjuk convicted over Nazi camp deaths

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John Demjanjuk, Ulrich Busch AP – John Demjanjuk leaves the court room with his lawyer Ulrich Busch, top, in Munich, southern Germany, …


Defense claims fake evidence used in nazi trial Play Video Video:Defense claims fake evidence used in nazi trial AP

By DAVID RISING, Associated Press – 42 mins ago

MUNICH – Retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk was convicted of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp and sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison, a groundbreaking verdict that closed one chapter in a decades-long legal battle.

Judges ordered him released pending appeal.

Demjanjuk was found guilty of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder, one for each person who died during the time he was ruled to have been a guard at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Presiding Judge Ralph Alt said the 91-year-old was a piece of the Nazis' "machinery of destruction."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk

[Chester Copperpot]

this guy's case is still going on?

Damn this has been what. since the 80s?

[bobbyw24]

October 30, 2009

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- James Traficant, a former Ohio congressman, says he will travel to Germany to testify on John Demjanjuk's behalf if subpoenaed.

Demjanjuk, 89, a Ukrainian death camp guard, was deported earlier this year to Germany to face murder charges. His trial is scheduled to begin in Munich on Nov. 30.

"I will also address the issue of John Demjanjuk, who is not being just prosecuted -- Demjanjuk and his family are being persecuted, and no one in Washington will help," Traficant wrote this week in a column he is launching in American Free Press, a publication that provides online links to Holocaust deniers. "I plan to help him and will testify in Germany about the crimes in the Justice Department if subpoenaed."

Traficant says he would testify for Demjanjuk

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/10/30/1008850/trafican-says-he-will-testify-for-demjanjuk

[FrankRep]

Flashback:


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John Demjanjuk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk), Alleged Nazi prison camp guard



A recently declassified FBI report obtained by the Associated Press claims evidence in a trial against John Demjanjuk purporting to show that he was a National Socialist (Nazi) death-camp guard for Germany was likely fabricated by the Soviet Union to smear him for speaking out against the communist regime.


FBI: Nazi ID in War-crimes Case Likely Soviet Fake (http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/7102-fbi-nazi-id-in-war-crimes-case-likely-soviet-fake)


Alex Newman | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
13 April 2011


Background:

2009 - Double Jeopardy OK'd for John Demjanjuk (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/1422)

Retired auto worker John Demjanjuk has been deported to Germany where he will be charged — this time — with complicity in Nazi crimes at Poland’s Sobibor concentration camp. By John F. McManus

[bobbyw24]

Funny thing is, he was never a Nazi, nor Ivan the Terrible, nor even German. So why now is he standing trial in Munich as accessory to 27,900 Nazi murders? Is this one last blow struck for justice for the Holocaust? Or is it a farce?

By Scott Raab

Originally published in the November 2009 issue

Were we not speaking of the Holocaust — Shoah, the Greatest Crime Ever Perpetrated, a Darkness Inexplicable, Pure Evil Incarnate — it would be funny.

Because it is the Holocaust, however, it is hilarious: No greater monster left alive, John Demjanjuk sits where Hitler once sat — in a cell in Munich's Stadelheim prison — waiting for his lunch, and for justice to be done to him again.

Again. As the dwindling few real-life Nazis march day by day to hell, as their numbers shrink and our remembrance fades, the faceless face on atrocity's Most Wanted poster is again — again — this recycled Ukrainian peasant, now eighty-nine years old.

Lunch eventually will come. As for justice, who knows when or what that will be. Justice took its time last time, seven years in all, dawdling till the gallows were built; Demjanjuk heard the work crew daily, hammering the planks. But there, at least — in, of all places, Israel — his jailers brought fresh vegetables, and tins of mystery meat, and let him thrust his thick arms through the bars of his cell and fix himself supper on a hot plate.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/john-demjanjuk-1109#ixzz1MAdCLMJi

[Thrashertm]

So this guy kills 28K and he gets a trial, but Bin Laden kills 3K and is executed. More logic.

[eduardo89]

What a farce. Wasn't he already tried and exonerated for this in Israel?

[aid632007]

Good topic.

[CharlesTX]

How many people died in regards to collateral damage under the policies of Clinton, Bush, and Obama?