Word: demjanjuk
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Mass murderer or victim of mistaken identity? That question swirled about John Demjanjuk last week as the retired Cleveland auto mechanic was indicted in Jerusalem. Demjanjuk, 66, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," murderer of more than 800,000 people at the World War II Treblinka death camp in Poland, denies having been there. He is being held in the prison where Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann was hanged...
...defenders claim that Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 65, is nothing more than a quiet resident of the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills, retired from his job in a Ford auto plant. But to his Israeli accusers, Demjanjuk is "Ivan the Terrible," who helped murder some 900,000 people at the Nazi death camp near Treblinka, Poland, in 1942 and 1943 and then slipped into the U.S. in 1952 as a "displaced person." Last week, after seven years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the extradition of Demjanjuk to Israel, where he will become the first...