Word: treblinka
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UNLESS the Israeli Supreme Court heeds his appeal and overturns his death sentence, retired Cleveland autoworker and convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk will hang sometime this year for the grisly crimes committed at Treblinka by the notorious "Ivan the Terrible...
...central question in the Demjanjuk case is that of identity. No one doubts that the so-called Ivan the Terrible, a Treblinka guard, committed some of the most savage crimes of the war, including cutting flesh from live human beings. The question is, are Demjanjuk and Ivan the Terrible the same man? The Israeli prosecutors say yes, but their case is tenuous at best...
Their shaky case rests largely on a Soviet-supplied SS identification card of questionable authenticity which the Soviets and the Israelis claim was Demjanjuk's. The case also rests on five Treblinka survivors who testified at Demjanjuk's trial that he is Ivan...
Israel maintains that after Chelma, the Germans transferred Demjanjuk to Trawniki--an SS center for training concentration camp guards--and later to Treblinka where he was to become known as Ivan...
...Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 68, a beefy Cleveland autoworker extradited from the U.S. in 1986, insisted that he was a victim of mistaken identity. But the judges determined that he "held a central role in the Treblinka order and carried out his tasks with a great deal of enthusiasm." Originally a soldier in the Soviet army, Demjanjuk apparently became a guard after being captured by the Nazis. Vivid testimony came from eight Jews who survived the Treblinka horrors. Demjanjuk's lawyers argued that a survivor could not reliably remember events that occurred so long ago. Responded Presiding Judge Dov Levin...