Word: demjanjuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the four-week trial, Demjanjuk acknowledged lying on his immigration papers, saying that he was in the Red Army and had been taken prisoner by the Nazis. The alibi seemed shaky to the court, and he was stripped of his citizenship...
...much as I loathed John Demjanjuk, I resented him more, with his impassive silence, his callous, almost bored, demeanor as he faced his accusers, his careless and demonstrably false alibi," Ryan wrote...
Later, Ryan added, "In his smug silence, Demjanjuk is the Nazi mind, telling us something: I did it once, and got away with it. I won't explain how or why, for if I did, you might understand it a little better than you did before, and learn to recognize it when it rears its head again...
After numerous appeals, Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel in 1986 to stand trial for murder. He was convicted and sentenced to death in April 1988. The Israeli Supreme Court has yet to rule on his appeal...
...This has been 16 years of sheer hell for my family," says Demjanjuk's son-in-law Ed Nishnic, who has gone $100,000 in debt trying to clear his father-in-law's name...