Word: demjanjuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence did seem to indicate that Demjanjuk had been a Nazi collaborator: an identity card supplied to the Americans by the Soviets, who claimed to have discovered it among German documents seized in the war, indicated he had been trained as a Wachmann, or guard, for the SS. U.S. officials thought Demjanjuk and Marchenko were one and the same. In his 1951 application for a U.S. visa, Demjanjuk incorrectly listed his mother's maiden name as Marchenko. He said he had forgotten her real name and simply selected a common Ukrainian surname, but his choice gave rise to speculation that...
...Demjanjuk was wrongly convicted in Israel, the trial court's mistake was in relying too heavily on the testimony of five Treblinka survivors, ages 61 to 86. Their identifications, four decades after the events, were made in not entirely neutral circumstances. During the initial investigation, they picked Demjanjuk from a photo spread in which his picture was disproportionately large. They identified him in court after the Israeli media had thoroughly covered his extradition. "Of course the survivors knew who he was supposed to be," says Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. "They'd seen...
...Though Demjanjuk may not be the Ivan of Treblinka, evidence suggests he was a Wachmann elsewhere, notably at the Sobibor death camp in Poland. The Supreme Court could convict him on those charges or order that he be tried anew. However, scant proof exists of what Demjanjuk may have done at the other camps. Such a move would also raise questions of selective punishment, since Israel has never before sought to prosecute ordinary Wachmanner...
...made any effort to find Marchenko, the true beast, it would seem, of Treblinka. Marchenko, who was born in 1911, could well be dead. If he is still alive and free, living comfortably in Croatia or Argentina or some American suburb, that would be the greatest travesty of the Demjanjuk affair...
...Demjanjuk seems not to have been the beast of Treblinka...