John Demjanjuk

John Demjanjuk

John Demjanjuk (born April 3, 1920) is a retired auto worker who is suspected of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps. Though he was tried and convicted of war crimes in Israel in 1988, he was released in 1993 when judges ruled that... [more]

John Demjanjuk (born April 3, 1920) is a retired auto worker who is suspected of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps. Though he was tried and convicted of war crimes in Israel in 1988, he was released in 1993 when judges ruled that there was a reasonable doubt as to whether Demjanjuk was the SS Guard known as "Ivan Grozny" or Ivan the Terrible. He was charged again with 26,000 murders on March 11, 2009, by German authorities.

 
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German authorities are investigating whether a man due to testify at the war-crimes trial of John Demjanjuk may have committed killings himself as a concentration camp guard, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Kurt Schrimm, who heads the special German prosecutors' office responsible for investigating Nazi-era crimes, said his researchers are trying to determine whether the Alex Nagorny slated to testify is the same Nagorny implicated by witnesses in killing people in Treblinka. "It is fully open whether this is the same Nagorny, if it is the same person who is the witness," he told The Associated Press. A formal investigation would be launched only after ... Read Full Story
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John Demjanjuk appeared an ill man on Monday as he faced the first day of his trial accused of herding tens of thousands of Jews to their death in the Nazi gas chambers during World War II. Demjanjuk, 89, charged with helping to kill 27,900 people while a guard at the Sobibor death camp in 1943, appeared for the first session in a wheelchair, keeping his eyes mostly closed and moaning as he left the room. In the second 90-minute session, Demjanjuk was carried in on a stretcher covered head-to-toe in a white blanket, writhing about and waving his arms before the judge suspended ... Read Full Story
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A Dutch Holocaust survivor broke down on Tuesday as he told a court how his mother was transported to the gas chambers in Sobibor, a Nazi death camp where John Demjanjuk is accused of being a guard. In wrenching testimony on the second day of Demjanjuk's trial, Rudolf Salomon Cortissos, 70, waved a letter his mother had thrown out of the train as she was taken to her death, before being led away from the court in tears. "It's the only thing I have," Cortissos, a co-plaintiff in the case, told reporters afterwards, again struggling to compose himself. In the letter, composed hours before ... Read Full Story
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Holocaust survivors on Tuesday accused John Demjanjuk of faking the gravity of his illness to seek sympathy ahead of the first harrowing testimony on the killing of tens of thousands of Jews at the Sobibor death camp. A lawyer for the alleged Nazi guard -- who faces charges of assisting in the gas chamber murder of 29,700 camp inmates -- in turn hit out at what he calls "double standards" in German justice by bringing action against a lowly soldier who did not give the orders. Demjanjuk was pushed into his trial on Monday moaning in a wheelchair and later carried in on a ... Read Full Story
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Eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk, accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp, was due in court in Germany on Monday for the opening of what is likely to be the last major Holocaust trial. If convicted the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk will almost certainly spend the rest of his days behind bars. If not, he will face an uncertain future as he has no passport and no country wants him. With his family saying he is suffering from serious health problems, Demjanjuk, who turns 90 in April, was expected to be wheeled into the courtroom in Munich in southern Germany in a wheelchair. "He's not ... Read Full Story
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German authorities are investigating whether a man due to testify at the war-crimes trial of John Demjanjuk may have committed killings himself as a concentration camp guard, a prosecutor said Tuesday.Kurt Schrimm, who heads the special German prosecutors' office responsible for investigating Nazi-era crimes, said his researchers are trying to determine whether the Alex Nagorny slated to testify is the same Nagorny implicated by witnesses in...  
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John Demjanjuk, alleged Nazi death camp guard, goes on trial in Germany John Demjanjuk, who prosecutors alleged worked as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp, went on trial in Germany Monday. His is likely the last high profile case over ...  
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John Demjanjuk at the start of his trial in Munich last week. BY GISELA FRIEDRICHSEN Der Spiegel John Demjanjuk is playing the dying victim at his trial in Munich. In doing so he is insulting the relatives of the Jews murdered in Sobibor. The 89-year-old defendant accused of aiding and abetting mass murder is neither senile nor confused [...]  
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THE Ukrainian concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk is currently being tried in Munich for his part in the murder of thousands of prisoners in the Sobibor camp in 1943. How different his plight would have been if he had been a Ukrainian concentration camp guard called John Demjanjuk whose crimes were committed under the Soviet Union. Because there have been no trials of the criminals who murdered millions under Stalin.  
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Sydney Morning HeraldSobibor families vent anger after John Demjanjuk fever delays trialTimes OnlineJewish plaintiffs could barely conceal their anger yesterday after the trial of the suspected war criminal John Demjanjuk was delayed for almost three weeks because he was suffering from a slight fever. “At 8am, the accused registered a temperature of ...Germany: Demjanjuk Trial DelayedNew York TimesWar crime justice has no time limitguardian.co...  
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BBC NewsJohn Demjanjuk wheeled into German courtroomTimes OnlineJohn Demjanjuk was brought by ambulance to a Munich court today, charged as an accessory to 27900 murders in what is being billed as the last major Nazi war crimes trial. Mr Demjanjuk, 89, who is accused of being a guard at the Sobibor death camp ...Demjanjuk 'had no choice' in bringing Jews to deathCNN InternationalProfile: John Demjanjuk, Nazi death camp guard on trialTelegraph...  
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