| Jewish Hatred Exposed: The Case of John Demnjanjuk The case of John Demjanjuk serves as one of the more blatant cases of blind Jewish hatred and outright lies over the so-called Holocaust. Jewish liars have, by falsely accusing Demjanjuk, managed to not only expose their own vicious, unsubstantiated and appalling lies about the mythical "Holocaust," but, in the process, have ruined John Demnjanjuk's life. The John Demjanjuk story begins in October 1975, when a list of names of alleged Nazi war criminals was circulated amongst members of the US senate. The list originated with the Soviet Union's KGB, allegedly out of material captured by the Soviet Army at the end of World War II. One of the names appearing on the list was that of John Ivan Demjanjuk—a Ukrainian who had immigrated to the USA in 1951 and who had been living in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1958. The KGB document alleged that Demjanjuk had been a soldier in the Red Army who, after falling into German captivity, had volunteered for service in the S.S. Demjanjuk, had, said the Soviet document, undergone training at the SS camp in the town of Trawniki, Poland. He had, continued the document, served from March 1943 as an SS guard at the Sobibor camp, and later at the Floenbuerg concentration camp. US GOVERNMENT STARTS DENATURALIZATION AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION PROCEEDINGS Acting on this information, the US government started proceedings to strip Demjanjuk of his citizenship, based on his alleged concealment of his Nazi past from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In addition, the US Government instructed its Department of Justice to start a full investigation into the allegations contained in the Soviet document, in preparation for a deportation hearing to send Demjanjuk to Israel for trial. ISRAELIS FIND "EYEWITNESSES" WHO PLACE DEMJANJUK AT TREBLINKA In February 1976, the American government requested the Israeli government's co-operation in finding Israeli citizens who were survivors from the Sobibor camp who might be able to identify Demjanjuk. The source of identification was passport photographs submitted by Demjanjuk to the INS during his application for citizenship in 1950—the logic being that Demjanjuk would still appear relatively similar to how he had looked in 1943. During 1976, the Israeli police identified a number of Jews who were on record as having been rescued or escaped from the Treblinka or Sobibor camps. These "survivors", when shown the photographs of Demjanjuk, identified him as a guard called "Ivan the Terrible" who had allegedly operated the gas chamber at Treblinka. Despite the American government actually having identified Demjanjuk as having been a guard at the geographically separate Sobibor camp, the "eyewitness survivors" placed Demjanjuk at the Treblinka camp, and of being the gas chamber operator there. DEMJANJUK STRIPPED OF US CITIZENSHIP, DEPORTED TO ISRAEL The next year, 1977, the INS instituted denaturalization proceedings against Demjanjuk. While these proceedings were underway, the US Department of Justice then created an Office of Special Investigations (OSI) who sole job it was to track down alleged Nazi war criminals in the USA. Partly as a result of the delay caused by the creation of the OSS, Demjanjuk's denaturalization hearing only began in February 1981. In June 1985, he was finally stripped of his US citizenship, and became the subject of a deportation hearing served by the state of Israel. It took another five years of legal wrangling before Demjanjuk was finally deported to Israel in 1986 to stand trial. ISRAELI CASE BASED ON EYEWITNESSES AND SS ID CARD The State of Israel's application for extradition was based on the testimony of "eyewitnesses" and a SS identification card, allegedly issued to Demjanjuk upon completion of his training at the Trawniki SS camp. 
Above: The "Trawniki Certificate"—A SS identification card bearing Demjanjuk's name and photograph. Supplied by the KGB, it was a critical piece of evidence—until the collapse of the Soviet Union allowed it to be revealed as a KGB forgery. This card, which became known as the 'Trawniki certificate" was a pivotal piece of evidence, as it contained Demjanjuk's photograph. The card had been provided to the prosecution directly out of Soviet records. Along with the identification card, the prosecution produced five "eyewitnesses" who all testified that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible" who operated gas chambers in Treblinka. DEMJANJUK DENIES ALL CHARGES Demjanjuk's defense was that he had been captured by the Germans and had remained in their captivity throughout the war, never serving with the SS. The prosecution dismissed his defense, producing eye witness identifying him personally, and the SS-identification card with his photograph. The case against Demjanjuk seemed overwhelming, and unsurprisingly, no-one believed him. EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS FINGER DEMJANJUK The first 'survivor' to testify, Pinhas Epstein, took the stand on 23 February 1987, and told the court that "I am convinced that opposite me sits Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka" (Reuters, 23 February 1987). Epstein said he saw a photograph of Demjanjuk in an album shown to him in 1978 by Israeli investigators. "I was shown an album and my attention was drawn to one picture, and I identified it as that of Ivan." (Reuters, 23 February 1987). "I said the photo was not particularly sharp. It was older than the Ivan I knew, but it was still him. The frame, the round face, the short neck, the wide shoulders and the protruding ears. I told them this is the Ivan I remember," Epstein said. (Reuters, 23 February 1987.) "I would go to the gas chambers to take out the corpses . . . he would stand and look at the result of his handiwork – the stabbing of girls, the gouging of eyes, the pieces of the girls' breasts . . . this would occur meters from me," Epstein continued in his evidence (Reuters, 23 February 1987).  The next 'survivor eyewitness', Eliyhau Rosenberg, then told the court on 25 February 1987: "This man is Ivan, without a shadow of a doubt – Ivan from Treblinka, from the gas chambers, - the man I am looking at now,"(Reuters, 25 February 1987). 
Rosenberg testified that he got to know Demjanjuk really well, and that once Demjanjuk had given him 30 lashes for stealing bread, and had then forced him to say "thank you." (Reuters, 25 February 1987). Rosenberg went to tell the court that at the age of 12, he was forced to remove bodies from the gas chambers and bury or burn them. "We soon discovered that women and children burned quicker than men. The Germans would tell us: 'Throw the children first because they burn faster,'" Rosenberg said. (Reuters, 25 February 1987). 
DEMJANJUK CONVICTED, SENTENCED TO DEATH To no-one's surprise, the Israeli Court found Demjanjuk guilty on 18 April 18, 1988, and a week later, sentenced him to death for the only crime in Israel which carries the death penalty—being a Nazi. The conviction had been obtained based primarily on the SS identification card and the eyewitness accounts which identified Demjanjuk as the gas chamber operator at Treblinka. The defense immediately appealed, citing numerous irregularities in court procedure, rules of evidence and other issues. SOVIET UNION'S COLLAPSE REVEALS TRAWNIKI FORGERY At a critical juncture in the appeal process—when Demjanjuk's life hung in the balance—fate intervened. One of the appeal judges had a heart attack, and the case was postponed. During the postponement, in 1990, the Soviet Union suddenly collapsed. As a result, the KGB archives on the case were opened (the reader will recall that the original list and Trawniki certificate had originated with the KGB). In the KGB file dealing with Demjanjuk, the shocking truth was revealed—the Trawniki certificate had been forged to frame the Ukrainian as part of a campaign against Ukrainian nationalists.  Above: Holocaust "survivor" and eyewitness: Eliyhau Rosenberg breaks down in the Israeli courtroom after identifying John Demjanjuk as 'Ivan the Terrible'. Rosenberg's testimony, like ALL the "survivors" who testified against Demjanjuk, was shown to be false. CASE COLLAPSES—DEMJANJUK ACQUITTED ON APPEAL Faced with the exposure of the Trawniki certificate as an outrageous forgery, the Israeli Supreme Court, to its credit, acknowledged that the entire case against Demjanjuk had been fabricated from start to finish. He was acquitted in July 1993, with the Israeli Supreme Court stating that there was no evidence to show that Demjanjuk was indeed 'Ivan the Terrible.' On 22 September 1993, John Demjanjuk was finally released and allowed to return home to Cleveland, Ohio—an innocent man who spent seven years in an Israeli jail, because of a KGB forgery and a pack of fabricated evidence from "holocaust survivors."  Above: John Demjanjuk, still in his Israeli prison clothes, laughs with delight after his acquittal—and the Israeli Supreme Court's dismissal of the "eyewitness" accounts which claimed to have seen him operating a gas chamber at Treblinka camp. ISRAELI SUPREME COURT DISMISSES "EYEWITNESS" EVIDENCE Implicit in its dismal of the case against Demjanjuk, the Israeli Supreme Court tacitly acknowledged that ALL of the eye witness accounts which placed Demjanjuk at Treblinka, were false. For this reason, the John Demjanjuk case serves as an outstanding example of just how unreliable "holocaust survivor eyewitnesses" are. For if the Israeli Supreme Court could not bring itself to believe them—and that institution, of all, would be the most likely to take their word—then this serves as an indication of just how false these accounts are. If the 'survivors' could lie so blatantly in identifying Demjanjuk, then it is fair to ask what else in their testimony was fabricated? And so the latest sage in this grotesque charade has now played itself out: using EXACTLY the same "evidence" already rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court, a German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of being a "Nazi camp guard." As Patrick Buchanan recently wrote: John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders," ran the headline on the BBC. The lead began: "A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland." Not until paragraph 17 does one find this jolting fact: "No evidence was produced that he committed a specific crime." That is correct. No evidence was produced, no witness came forward to testify he ever saw Demjanjuk injure anyone. And the critical evidence that put Demjanjuk at Sobibor came — from the KGB. First was a KGB summary of an alleged interview with one Ignat Danilchenko, who claimed he was a guard at Sobibor and knew Demjanjuk. Second was the Soviet-supplied ID card from the Trawniki camp that trained guards. There are major problems with both pieces of "evidence." First, Danilchenko has been dead for a quarter of a century, no one in the West ever interviewed him, and Moscow stonewalled defense requests for access to the full Danilchenko file. His very existence raises a question. How could a Red Army soldier who turned collaborator and Nazi camp guard survive Operation Keelhaul, which sent all Soviet POWs back to Joseph Stalin, where they were either murdered or sent to the Gulag? As for the ID card from Trawniki, just last month there was unearthed at the National Archives in College Park, Md., a 1985 report from the Cleveland office of the FBI, which, after studying the card, concluded it was "quite likely" a KGB forgery. "Justice is ill-served in the prosecution of an American citizen on evidence which is not only normally inadmissible in a court of law, but based on evidence and allegations quite likely fabricated by the KGB." This FBI report, never made public, was done just as Demjanjuk was being deported to Israel to stand trial as "Ivan the Terrible," the murderer of Treblinka. In a sensational trial covered by the world's press, Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to hang. But after five years on death row, new evidence turned up when the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia opened up. That evidence wholly validated the claims of Demjanjuk's defenders. Not only had Demjanjuk never even been at Treblinka, the Soviet files contained a photograph of the real "Ivan" — a larger and older man. To its eternal credit, the Israeli Supreme Court reversed the conviction, rejected a request to retry Demjanjuk as a camp guard elsewhere in Poland, freed him and sent him home to America. Exposed as a laughing stock, and denounced for fraud by Ohio district and appellate courts, the Office of Special Investigations began crafting a new case, John Demjanjuk of Sobibor, to deport and try again the old man whose defense attorneys had made fools of them. Thus the Sobibor story and Demjanjuk's supposed complicity in the murder of 28,000 Jews — though, as the BBC notes, no one testified at the trial that they ever saw John Demjanjuk injure anyone. Consider the life this tormented American has lived. Born in Ukraine in 1920, as a boy he endured the Holodomor — the famine imposed on his people in 1932 and 1933 by Stalin and his hated henchman Lazar Kaganovich, which resulted in the starvation and death of somewhere between 5 million and 9 million Ukrainians. It has been called by historians the "forgotten Holocaust." Conscripted into the Red Army, Demjanjuk was captured in the German blitzkrieg. Not only did Demjanjuk survive, he managed to evade the Allied order, under Keelhaul, for all Red Army POWs to be repatriated to Stalin, which was the Soviet dictator's demand before he would return the U.S. and British POWs his troops liberated in the march to Berlin. In the war's aftermath, Demjanjuk married his wife Vera, who had been conscripted in the Ukraine and brought forcibly west to work in the German economy. Thence he moved to Cleveland, became an autoworker, raised a family and practiced his Christian faith. But he made a mistake. He sent his wife to Ukraine to tell his aged mother that he had survived the war and was living in the great United States of America. Word got around the village. The KGB came calling. Swiftly, the payments his mother had been receiving for her war hero son were halted, and suddenly, there turned up an ID card that said John Demjanjuk had been trained at Trawniki to be a Nazi camp guard. The KGB began feeding OSI from its "files," as OSI began a manic persecution of Demjanjuk that has lasted 30 years. Thus the evil lie of the "holocaust" takes yet another victim. | 
