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Meanwhile, citing "reasonable doubt," the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the conviction and death sentence of John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker who for the past 16 years has denied that he was Ivan the Terrible, the operator of the gas chambers at the Treblinka concentration camp...
...Nazi manhunt and the promise of retribution go on? How many more war criminals, their faces surgically disguised and their identities long since falsified, can be brought to justice? Those questions reverberated around the world last week after the Israeli Supreme Court unanimously overturned the 1988 conviction of John Demjanjuk. The 73-year-old retired Cleveland autoworker had been sentenced to death for being "Ivan the Terrible," the notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp who operated the gas chambers...
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...
...Ryan's public statements, not his lawyerly pursuit of the Demjanjuk case, could potentially cause him the most serious embarrassment. The source of that could be his 1984 book, Quiet Neighbors, in which the lawyer indicates his certainty about Demjanjuk's identity...
Somehow, after 16 years of legal work, it seems as though everyone is back where they started. That includes Demjanjuk, who again may live on a quiet street in suburban Ohio...