Word: demjanjuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cloud over the Demjanjuk case has darkened over Ryan's conduct while...
...Nightline" in December 1991, something changed. Ryan softened his stance on the question of whether John Demjanjuk was indeed Ivan the Terrible. "I think it is far too early to reach any responsible answers to that very important question," Ryan told interviewer Jeff Greenfield...
...December 1991, Demjanjuk supporters got their first big break in the case. More than two dozen statements from other Nazi death camps guards were released by the Soviet Union. In the statements, the guards, who were tried and executed by the Soviets between 1944 and 1961, say Ivan the Terrible was another man, Ivan Marchenko...
Yoram Sheftel, Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer, took this evidence and immediately went on the offensive against Special Investigations and Ryan. Appearing with Ryan on ABC News' "Nightline" on December 23, 1991, Sheftel charged that Ryan had known the guard statements were in OSI files when Demjanjuk was denaturalized...
Since news of the guard statements broke. Ryan has offered other possible explanations. He told the Harvard Gazette in January 1992 that Demjanjuk might have been known by his mother's maiden name, Marchenko, at Treblinka. Ryan also said it was possible that both Ivan Marchenko and Ivan Demjanjuk were present at the death camp...