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...Demjanjuk was accused by the Nazi-hunting Office of Special Investigations of being the infamous Ivan the Terrible, a Nazi death camp guard at Treblinka, Poland who brutally beat Holocaust victims and was in charge of the area where nearly one million Jews were put to death...
...Demjanjuk from a photo spread in which his picture was disproportionately large. They identified him in court after the Israeli media had thoroughly covered his extradition. "Of course the survivors knew who he was supposed to be," says Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. "They'd seen him testify in America." Israel's Supreme Court now knows what the trial court did not: that there were two men, Ivan Demjanjuk and Ivan Marchenko. Judging by photos of the two as young men, they shared a similar round face, protruding ears, almond-shaped eyes...
Nazi hunters expect any outcome to be bad news for them. The case, says Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's coordinator of Nazi war-crimes research, has seriously challenged the testimonial value of Holocaust survivors and made it "incredibly difficult" to press for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals worldwide. He insists the Wiesenthal Center will not lessen its efforts to bring these criminals to justice. But he will not say whether the organization has made any effort to find Marchenko, the true beast, it would seem, of Treblinka. Marchenko, who was born in 1911, could well be dead...
When Twilight opened recently in Washington, I was fortunate enough to spend a day at the brand-new and heartbreaking Holocaust Museum. Yet again, I was stunned by the Nazis' painstaking "scientific" attempts to rid the gene pool of unwanted traits. Now, barely 50 years later, science is giving us the knowledge and tools that Hitler's medical staff only dreamed of. Our society will be forced, whether it wants to or not, to answer this question and others like it: Was Hitler wrong about the Jews but right about the homosexuals...
...controversy grew from there. Antiabortion activists have called her a "mass murderer" and "director of the Arkansas Holocaust." Her reputation has provoked a coalition of national right-to-life groups to challenge her nomination. "We are deadly opposed to her confirmation," says James A. Smith, a lobbyist for the Christian Life Commission. But the White House contends it is ready to fight for this nominee. Says Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala: "She is colorful and plainspoken, and Americans like people who are straightforward." One Republican Senator, Don Nickles of Oklahoma, has come out against...