The Demjanjuk Case: A Huge Failure of Justice

US to Deport Accused ‘Nazi Camp Guard’ John Demjanjuk

By James Buchanan – EURO

In the first case against John Demjanjuk, it was claimed that he was a sadistic, murderous guard named “Ivan the Terrible.” He was extradited to Israel, spent five years in an Israeli prison and was sentenced to death. Congressman James Traficant and Pat Buchanan made it known there was conclusive evidence that the accused was not “Ivan the Terrible.” Demjanjuk was returned to the United States and many people thought that he would finally be left alone after being so horribly and wrongly persecuted for so long.

The organization prosecuting Demjanjuk is the Office of Special Investigations (OSI). They appear to prosecute only cases involving alleged Nazi war crimes while ignoring war criminals hiding in the US from Communist countries. The head of the OSI is Eli M. Rosenbaum.

Some people however were not happy about Demjanjuk escaping the original charges against him and embarrassing the people so eager to put him to death. Amazingly, a second round of persecution against John Demjanjuk was started claiming that he was a guard in a different camp. This time there wasn’t even a claim that he abused prisoners. The latest accusation was generated by the same branch of our judicial system, that came up with the completely false earlier charges.

An article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer has let out a few more crumbs of information about the latest deportation case. The article notes “A federal judge in Cleveland found that Demjanjuk worked for the Nazis and stripped him of his citizenship in 2002, based on seven wartime documents that linked him to Hitler’s regime. After appeals courts upheld the ruling, the case moved to (Judge) Creppy for removal proceedings.”

Now wait a second. The Feds are telling us that they found seven documents “proving” that Demjanjuk was a different guard other than “Ivan the Terrible.” Doesn’t that imply that they were suppressing this evidence during the earlier trial in which he was sentenced to death? Or perhaps they didn’t make much of an effort to look or maybe they’ve been fabricating everything from day one.

A key piece of evidence against Demjanjuk in the first trial was a so-called identity card which turned out to be a forgery. One website notes “After seeing the ID card in the newspaper, I called Mr. Karl Streibel, who had been commandant of the Trawniki camp, where this document had supposedly been issued. Streibel told me: Mr. Brentar, I told your people from Washington, who came to see me three years ago, that this is not an ID card from Trawniki. I told them that Trawniki was a training camp for those men who were chosen to work as guards for the Germans, and that this was a training camp not only for concentration camp guards. There were approximately five thousand men there, most of whom were then assigned to guard military installations, bridges, depots, motor pools, and so on. About three hundred of them were assigned to guard at camps such as Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. Mr. Streibel went on to tell me: Mr. Brentar, the attorneys from the OSI were here, and I told them to bring me the original ID card. I wanted to see the original because I would absolutely never sign any document without putting the date and place of issue before my signature.”

So the man who would have issued the alleged ID card to Demjanjuk told the OSI attorneys that the card was not genuine and they suppressed this evidence. If this sort of misconduct took place during the first trial, how can we believe anything they say or believe any document they produce in the second trial. It appears as though Demjanjuk is being punished for escaping the death penalty and embarrasing all the prosecutors by being innocent.

The OSI failed to mention that Demjanjuk’s ID card was a fake during the first deportation and trial, which could have led to Demjanjuk’s execution. Why aren’t the OSI attorneys being investigated for misconduct or even attempted murder?

Demjanjuk Case Update:

‘Nazi guard’ loses last US appeal

It is unclear which country would take Mr Demjanjuk A man accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War II has finally lost his legal fight to stay in the United States. John Demjanjuk, 88, migrated to the US in the 1950s. He was extradited to Israel and sentenced to death for war crimes, but the ruling was overturned. He returned to the US but was accused of lying on his immigration application about working for the Nazis. The US Supreme Court has now rejected his appeal against deportation. The BBC’s Jack Izzard in Washington says it remains unclear whether any country is willing to take Mr Demjanjuk in - or prosecute him again. Torture claim The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by the retired Ohio car worker. Mr Demjanjuk has always insisted he was a prisoner of war with the Nazis, rather than a guard serving under them. His lawyers have argued he would be tortured if sent back to Ukraine. Mr Demjanjuk was briefly deported to Israel amid a 30-year legal battle over his past. At the time, he was suspected of having been a notorious concentration camp guard, known by the nickname “Ivan the Terrible”.(…Full Article at BBC)

 
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