Word: demjanjuks
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...Harvard official claims that former Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk, who is due to go on trial today in Israel, is actually "Ivan the Terrible," the guard who operated the gas chambers that killed over one million Jews during the Second World...
Allan A. Ryan Jr., a lawyer in the office of Harvard's General Counsel, served as the director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations from 1980 to 1983. He said yesterday that there is "sufficient evidence to prove Demjanjuk guilty...
...Demjanjuk lived in the U.S. for 30 years before being extradited to Israel this past February to face charges under Israeli law. He is accused of herding Jews to their deaths at the concentration camp in Treblinka, Poland...
Ryan, who oversaw the prosecution of the 1981 case stripping Demjanjuk of his American citizenship, says that there is no certainty that the Israeli Supreme Court will start to hear the case today. Ryan said that once it began "the trial would probably run for a matter of several weeks rather than several days or months...
...Demjanjuk's supporters include Reagan Aide Patrick Buchanan. In a Washington Post article carefully labeled as his personal view, Buchanan last week called Demjanjuk an "American Dreyfus," referring to the unfairly convicted French army officer cleared of treason charges...