Word: treblinka
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...defense for the first time. Throughout four days of grueling examination in a Jerusalem courtroom, Demjanjuk never wavered from his claim that he is a victim of mistaken identity. Israeli prosecutors contend that he was the sadistic guard named Ivan who tended the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp, where 850,000 Jews were slain. If convicted, he could be hanged under Israeli law. Demjanjuk was deported to Israel after U.S. officials concluded he had lied on his 1951 immigration application...
...story on the recent court cases against former Nazis ((WORLD, May 18)) mentions Austrian President Kurt Waldheim along with John Demjanjuk, who is | accused of being a sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp, and Karl Linnas, who was "given the death penalty in absentia." It must be stressed that there is no proof that Waldheim has committed any war crimes. To put him in the company of men who are on trial as war criminals is unjustified and does not help clarify matters in an area where emotions are strong...
Barbie's trial, which is expected to last six weeks, caps a recent round of summonses to judgment for former Nazis. In Israel, the trial of John Demjanjuk, 66, accused of being the sadistic guard "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp, has entered its 13th week, with a verdict expected next fall. Last week Austrian President and former United Nations Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim, 68, recently barred from entering the U.S. on suspicion of abetting Nazi crimes, ordered a state prosecutor to file suit for slander / against Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, for claiming that...
...wartime documents seized by advancing Soviet forces, has played some part in a majority of the cases that have come to court in the U.S., including that of John Demjanjuk, the retired autoworker from Cleveland now charged in an Israeli court with being an infamously sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp...
...THERE more outrage? Demjanjuk is accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," the guard who beat and tortured Jews and ran the gas chambers at Treblinka, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. He is charged with "crimes against the Jewish people, [and] crimes against humanity." He has been positively identified as the infamous "Ivan the Terrible" by the first two witnesses called to the stand...