From: Michael A. Hoffman II <hoffman@revisionisthistory.org>
Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:34 AM
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Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp
New York Times May 12, 2011
AN AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL HOFFMAN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWS THIS REPORT
MUNICH — After a trial lasting almost 18 months, John Demjanjuk, a
retired American autoworker who has been the subject of more than three
decades of legal proceedings over his Nazi-era past, was convicted here
on Thursday of helping to force some 28,000 Jews to their deaths during
the Holocaust. He showed no reaction as the court handed down a
five-year prison term, The Associated Press reported. It was not
immediately clear how much credit he would get for time already served.
His defense lawyers have already said they would appeal the conviction.
His trial was one of the last of accused Nazi war criminals.
Prosecutors had charged that Mr. Demjanjuk, 91, worked as a guard at the
Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. His trial in Munich,
beginning in December 2009, was the second time Mr. Demjanjuk has been
prosecuted — he was sentenced to death in Israel in 1988 only to have
his conviction overturned five years later as a case of mistaken
identity.
When the trial opened in Munich, Mr. Demjanjuk was listed by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center as its most wanted Nazi war criminal.
Mr. Demjanjuk (pronounced dem-ahn-YUKE) declined to make a final
statement as he arrived in the courtroom in a wheelchair pushed by a
German police officer. He was wearing a pale blue baseball cap and dark
glasses.
His trial was held despite arguments by his lawyers and family that he
was too sick to participate, because he suffered from ailments including
bone marrow disease. Doctors, however, concluded that he could stand
trial provide that hearings were restricted to two 90-minute sessions a
day.
As survivors and defendants have aged and died, the prosecution of
Nazi-era war criminals has become increasingly difficult because, 66
years after the end of World War II, few potential witnesses are still
alive. In the absence of specific evidence against him, the case against
Mr. Demjanjuk rested on the prosecution's charge that anyone working at
the camp at the time he was there shared responsibility for its function
of systematic murder.
"The court is convinced that the defendant served as a guard at Sobibor
from March 27, 1943, to mid-September, 1943," the presiding judge, Ralph
Alt said, according to the A.P. The prosecution had also produced an
identity card from the Nazi S.S. that, prosecutors alleged, shows a
young Demjanjuk and indicated that he had undergone training at an S.S.
camp. Mr. Demjanjuk's lawyers said that the card was forged by the
Soviet K.G.B.
Mr. Demjanjuk, who was born in Ukraine, was a soldier in the Soviet
Army, fighting against the Germans, until he was captured in the Crimea
in 1942.
He says he spent most of the remainder of the war as a prisoner. But
according to prosecutors, he went to the S.S. training camp in Trawniki,
Poland, where foreigners were trained to work as volunteers in the death
camps.
The case against Mr. Demjanjuk involved some 15 transport trains known
to have arrived between April and July 1943 from the Westerbork
concentration camp in the Netherlands, carrying 29,579 people.
Prosecutors initially charged Mr. Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts based on
the theory that some must have died in transit or been spared for a time
to work at the camp. By the end of the trial on Thursday, that figure
had been revised to 28,060 counts.
Some 250,000 Jews were killed at Sobibor, most of them poisoned with
exhaust fumes.
Mr. Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel in 1988 as
the infamously sadistic Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, only to have his
conviction overturned in 1993. He was freed by Israel's Supreme Court
after evidence surfaced suggesting that another man was most likely to
have been Ivan the Terrible.
In a statement on its Web site the day before the verdict, the Simon
Wiesenthal Center said: "This case has historic meaning because while it
may be the last 'major' case tried in Germany, it is the first time a
non-German has been charged by Germany with Nazi war crimes and brought
to trial in Germany."
Speaking to the German news agency on Thursday, Efraim Zuroff, the chief
Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the organization was
"very satisfied" that Mr. Demjanjuk had been sentenced to a prison term.
The court's decision "sends a very strong message that even many years
after the crimes of the Holocaust, perpetrators can be held to account
for their misdeeds," he said.
Avner Shalev, the head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance authority
in Jerusalem said that, while "no trial can bring back those that were
murdered," the conviction of Mr. Demjanjuk showed that theere was "no
statute of limitations on the crimes of the Holocaust" and that the
killings "could not have taken place without the participation of
myriads of Europeans on many levels."
Elan Steinberg, the Vice President of the American Gathering of
Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants said in a statement that the
conviction was "a clarion pronouncement that the pursuit of justice
should know no barriers of time and geography."
MICHAEL HOFFMAN'S AFTERWORD
Simon Wiesenthal was a con-man and a fantasist.
Look at the lavish attention paid to the statements filled with
vengeful, Talmudic crowing by Efraim Zuroff, Avner Shalev and Elan
Steinberg, and no coverage given to statements by Demjanjuk's family and
supporters.
Why are there no Judaic kapos prosecuted for aiding the Nazis? It is
said they were coerced. Demjanjuk was a prisoner of war. No coercion
there?
Can any accused "Nazi" get a fair trial in Zionist Germany, where
defense attorneys can be arrested for defending their accused clients
too vigorously, and where writers and publishers such as Ernst Zundel,
rot for years in prison because they dare to doubt Holocaustianity, the
last truly believed religion in the otherwise agnostic West?
In 91-year-old John Demjanjuk, the Zionists have their pound of flesh.
FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
"Defending Ivan the Terrible: The Justice Department's Conspiracy to
Convict John Demjanjuk" by Yoram Sheftel
***
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Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:34 AM
The Hoffman Wire
Dedicated to Freedom of the Press, Investigative Reporting and Revisionist History
Subscribe: HoffmanWire-subscribe@topica.com
Michael A. Hoffman II: Editor. RevisionistHistory.org
*****
Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp
New York Times May 12, 2011
AN AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL HOFFMAN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWS THIS REPORT
MUNICH — After a trial lasting almost 18 months, John Demjanjuk, a
retired American autoworker who has been the subject of more than three
decades of legal proceedings over his Nazi-era past, was convicted here
on Thursday of helping to force some 28,000 Jews to their deaths during
the Holocaust. He showed no reaction as the court handed down a
five-year prison term, The Associated Press reported. It was not
immediately clear how much credit he would get for time already served.
His defense lawyers have already said they would appeal the conviction.
His trial was one of the last of accused Nazi war criminals.
Prosecutors had charged that Mr. Demjanjuk, 91, worked as a guard at the
Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. His trial in Munich,
beginning in December 2009, was the second time Mr. Demjanjuk has been
prosecuted — he was sentenced to death in Israel in 1988 only to have
his conviction overturned five years later as a case of mistaken
identity.
When the trial opened in Munich, Mr. Demjanjuk was listed by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center as its most wanted Nazi war criminal.
Mr. Demjanjuk (pronounced dem-ahn-YUKE) declined to make a final
statement as he arrived in the courtroom in a wheelchair pushed by a
German police officer. He was wearing a pale blue baseball cap and dark
glasses.
His trial was held despite arguments by his lawyers and family that he
was too sick to participate, because he suffered from ailments including
bone marrow disease. Doctors, however, concluded that he could stand
trial provide that hearings were restricted to two 90-minute sessions a
day.
As survivors and defendants have aged and died, the prosecution of
Nazi-era war criminals has become increasingly difficult because, 66
years after the end of World War II, few potential witnesses are still
alive. In the absence of specific evidence against him, the case against
Mr. Demjanjuk rested on the prosecution's charge that anyone working at
the camp at the time he was there shared responsibility for its function
of systematic murder.
"The court is convinced that the defendant served as a guard at Sobibor
from March 27, 1943, to mid-September, 1943," the presiding judge, Ralph
Alt said, according to the A.P. The prosecution had also produced an
identity card from the Nazi S.S. that, prosecutors alleged, shows a
young Demjanjuk and indicated that he had undergone training at an S.S.
camp. Mr. Demjanjuk's lawyers said that the card was forged by the
Soviet K.G.B.
Mr. Demjanjuk, who was born in Ukraine, was a soldier in the Soviet
Army, fighting against the Germans, until he was captured in the Crimea
in 1942.
He says he spent most of the remainder of the war as a prisoner. But
according to prosecutors, he went to the S.S. training camp in Trawniki,
Poland, where foreigners were trained to work as volunteers in the death
camps.
The case against Mr. Demjanjuk involved some 15 transport trains known
to have arrived between April and July 1943 from the Westerbork
concentration camp in the Netherlands, carrying 29,579 people.
Prosecutors initially charged Mr. Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts based on
the theory that some must have died in transit or been spared for a time
to work at the camp. By the end of the trial on Thursday, that figure
had been revised to 28,060 counts.
Some 250,000 Jews were killed at Sobibor, most of them poisoned with
exhaust fumes.
Mr. Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel in 1988 as
the infamously sadistic Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, only to have his
conviction overturned in 1993. He was freed by Israel's Supreme Court
after evidence surfaced suggesting that another man was most likely to
have been Ivan the Terrible.
In a statement on its Web site the day before the verdict, the Simon
Wiesenthal Center said: "This case has historic meaning because while it
may be the last 'major' case tried in Germany, it is the first time a
non-German has been charged by Germany with Nazi war crimes and brought
to trial in Germany."
Speaking to the German news agency on Thursday, Efraim Zuroff, the chief
Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the organization was
"very satisfied" that Mr. Demjanjuk had been sentenced to a prison term.
The court's decision "sends a very strong message that even many years
after the crimes of the Holocaust, perpetrators can be held to account
for their misdeeds," he said.
Avner Shalev, the head of the Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance authority
in Jerusalem said that, while "no trial can bring back those that were
murdered," the conviction of Mr. Demjanjuk showed that theere was "no
statute of limitations on the crimes of the Holocaust" and that the
killings "could not have taken place without the participation of
myriads of Europeans on many levels."
Elan Steinberg, the Vice President of the American Gathering of
Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants said in a statement that the
conviction was "a clarion pronouncement that the pursuit of justice
should know no barriers of time and geography."
MICHAEL HOFFMAN'S AFTERWORD
Simon Wiesenthal was a con-man and a fantasist.
Look at the lavish attention paid to the statements filled with
vengeful, Talmudic crowing by Efraim Zuroff, Avner Shalev and Elan
Steinberg, and no coverage given to statements by Demjanjuk's family and
supporters.
Why are there no Judaic kapos prosecuted for aiding the Nazis? It is
said they were coerced. Demjanjuk was a prisoner of war. No coercion
there?
Can any accused "Nazi" get a fair trial in Zionist Germany, where
defense attorneys can be arrested for defending their accused clients
too vigorously, and where writers and publishers such as Ernst Zundel,
rot for years in prison because they dare to doubt Holocaustianity, the
last truly believed religion in the otherwise agnostic West?
In 91-year-old John Demjanjuk, the Zionists have their pound of flesh.
FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
"Defending Ivan the Terrible: The Justice Department's Conspiracy to
Convict John Demjanjuk" by Yoram Sheftel
***
The HOFFMAN WIRE is a public service of Independent History and Research, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816 USA
24 Hour Revisionist News Bureau:
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/news.html
Subscribe: HoffmanWire-subscribe@topica.com
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Some of His Best Friends Are Jewish: The Saga of a Holocaust Revisionist
By Nathaniel Popper
...an Israeli lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against former President Jimmy Carter, seeking $5 million in damages because his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" allegedly defamed Israel.
"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011
Peace.
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New York, NY 10023
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