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...lead thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers. Demjanjuk fought for the Russians first, however. According to prosecutors, he was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1942 and then sent for training to become a Nazi guard at a special camp in eastern Poland called Trawniki, which was run by Adolf Hitler's élite SS force. Crucial to the prosecution's case is an ID card from Trawniki purportedly showing that Demjanjuk was transferred from the SS training camp to Sobibor in March 1943. (See pictures of the rise of Adolf Hitler...
...strip the citizenship of individuals who served in Nazi death camps. A case in point is Jack Reimer, an otherwise inconspicuous 74-year-old potato-chip deliveryman in Carmel, New York. U.S. authorities now believe that in 1941 and 1942 Jakob Reimer was a Nazi guard at the Trawniki SS training camp in Poland. Investigators claim that under interrogation last year he not only admitted having witnessed other Nazis massacre Jews but also acknowledged that he had opened fire into a ravine filled with the bodies of 50 Jewish men already gunned down by other guards. Upon seeing one move...
...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...
...least, that's what an envelope Ryan received seemed to indicate. Inside, Ryan found a copy of an identification card from Trawniki, where the Nazi SS trained death camp guards. The card contained a photograph of a man with light, close-cropped hair...
...Soviets provided the most incriminating piece of evidence against Demjanjuk the identification card from Trawniki...