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...suppress evidence in the denaturalization and extradition trials of Cleveland autoworker John Demlanjuk. Ryan is being investigated as part of a probe by Tennessee Judge Thomas A. Wiseman of the unit's conduct in prosecuting Demlanjuk, who was tagged by the unit as the notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the terrible and arts today on death now in Israel...
...former Nazi who Ryan prosecuted, a Cleveland autoworker named John Demjanjuk, turned out to be the infamous Ivan the Terrible, a guard at the death camp in Treblinka, Poland...
...interviewing survivors and procuring evidence that included an identification card from Trawniki, where the Nazi SS trained death camp guards, Ryan identified Demjanjuk as Ivan. He was sure he had the right man. Perhaps too sure. "We had eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," Ryan wrote in his 1984 book, Quiet Neighbors. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...
...late 1991, though, more than two dozen statements from other Nazi death camp guards were released by the Soviet Union. In the statements, the guards, who were tried and executed by the Soviets between 1944 and 1961, say Ivan the Terrible was named Ivan Marcenko...
Asked in a February interview if Demjanjuk is Ivan the Terrible, Ryan would only say: "That decision is in the hands of the Israeli Supreme Court...