Word: demjanjuk
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...special report commissioned by the U.S. SixthCircuit Court of Appeals cleared UniversityAttorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. of any wrongdoing inthe prosecution of former Cleveland autoworkerJohn Demjanjuk as the notorious Nazi death campguard Ivan the Terrible...
From 1980 to 1983, Ryan headed up theDepartment of Justice's Office of SpecialInvestigations, a unit devoted to Nazi-hunting.However, in finding that Ryan and other Americanprosecutors of Demjanjuk "acted in good faith,"the report said the Harvard attorney and othershad made numerous mistakes, including the mostimportant one: Demjanjuk was most likely not Ivanthe Terrible...
...Demjanjuk Can Come Back...
Attorney General Janet Reno said the Justice Department will not fight the return of John Demjanjuk to the U.S. She added, however, that prosecutors will seek to deport the retired Cleveland autoworker again, for while new information suggests that he is not "Ivan the Terrible," as formerly accused, there is evidence that Demjanjuk did serve in a Nazi concentration camp...
Nazi hunters acknowledged that the decision was a severe setback for their cause. The fact that five Treblinka survivors had possibly misidentified Demjanjuk was bound to devalue the future testimony of aging concentration- camp survivors. The fact that a court in Israel, which has such an emotional stake in the Holocaust, had ruled in a suspected Nazi collaborator's favor was bound to discourage already reluctant countries such as Australia and Canada from continuing to pursue suspected war criminals...