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That fact emerged last week in the most significant trial in Israel since Adolf Eichmann was brought to justice 26 years ago. One after another, Holocaust survivors have been taking the witness stand to testify against John Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker from Cleveland who stands accused of operating gas chambers in which 850,000 Jews were killed during World...
...Ohio auto mechanic, was on trial in Jerusalem for operating gas chambers and murdering and torturing victims at Treblinka, the infamous Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland where at least 850,000 Jews were killed in 1942 and '43. It was Israel's first war-crimes trial since Adolf Eichmann was convicted and executed a quarter-century ago. At issue, however, was not the horrors committed at Treblinka by the Ukrainian guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" but whether he and Demjanjuk are the same...
...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...
...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 Nazi since Adolf Eichmann in 1961 to stand trial. Compared with Eichmann, who was executed for shipping millions of Jews to death camps, Demjanjuk was small fry in Hitler's genocide machine. A prisoner of war who switched sides and volunteered for the SS, he performed his camp duties with sadistic relish, according...
Since word came last summer that Dr. Josef Mengele was dead, a man named Alois Brunner, once top aide to Mass Murderer Adolf Eichmann, has headed the list of living Nazi war criminals. Brunner has long been rumored to be living in Damascus, Syria, and last week the Munich-based magazine Bunte disclosed that its reporters had found him there. At age 73, it said, Brunner is missing most of his fingers and is half blind as a result of two letter bombs sent to him by unknown parties in 1961 and 1980. He boasted to Bunte...