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...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...
...decision was criticized, too. John Demjanjuk may not have been Ivan the Terrible, but reliable evidence demonstrates he was almost certainly a death camp guard at Sobibor. Ivan the Little Less Terrible, so to speak. To some, especially to the many Holocaust survivors and their descendants in Israel, it was like letting Satan Joose on a technicality...
...most enduring damage caused by the Demjanjuk case, which was used by many Israeli schools as a way to teach children about the Holocaust, may be to the ongoing search for Nazis in the United States. Eyewitnesses may no longer want to testify, Political support for maintaining the Office of Special Investigations is weakening...
...Holocaust deniers now have one more tool they can exploit in their constant battle of disinformation. After 50 years, memories of the Holocaust are fading. This is Ryan's legacy from his days at the Department of Justice...
...Holocaust deniers now have one more tool they can exploit in their constant battle of disinformation. This is Ryan's legacy from his days at the Department of Justice...