John Demjanjuk dies at 91,
It is sick and absolutely crazy this game and stunt of Germany whose fathers and grandfathers are soaked with blood for murders during WW II is to blame it all on this poor soul old man of 89-years who is on the verge of death from multitude of ailments of his old age.
This guy was very small pawn in game of war and chess during WW II. Young German men of young age as 16 years were forced to go to fight for Hitler. Did they have choice to be part of this brutal war and its attrocities? Would they be tried as will? Germany stop playing this sickening game and re-examine your past. See if you can come ouf clean as ivory soap.
Leave this old man alone. Stop playing stunt games that came from no-where and go and repent for your crimes.
Don't mess with John Demjanjuk and let him die in peace for sake of humanity if you understand anything about it.
A federal appeals board has denied a request to reopen the deportation case against accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, seen here being taken from his Cleveland-area home by immigration officers on Tuesday. The decision sends the case to a higher level appeals court in Cincinnati.
'Nazi guard' gets last-minute extradition delay
Wednesday 15 April 2009
John Demjanjuk, an alleged WWII Nazi camp guard, has been released from custody after a US appeals court decided to halt his extradition. Hours earlier, US agents had carried the 89-year-old from his home to face trial in Germany.
AFP - Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was granted a last-minute stay of deportation Tuesday shortly after US agents carried the 89 year-old man moaning from his home in a wheelchair to face trial in Germany.
Demjanjuk had earlier Tuesday petitioned the US federal appeals court in his latest bid to block his extradition to Germany, where he faces charges of aiding in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews during World War II.
The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk is accused of having voluntarily served the Nazis at the Sobibor and Majdanek concentration camps in Poland in 1943.
"The petitioner's motion for a stay of removal is granted, pending further consideration of the matters presented by the petition and motion," the court said in its order.
It was the latest twist in a long saga for Demjanjuk, who narrowly escaped being hanged for war crimes in Israel and has spent years in court fighting to keep the US citizenship he obtained in 1958.
Demjanjuk was allowed to return home with an electronic tracking bracelet around his ankle, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Neither the Justice Department nor ICE would comment further except to say that the government would "continue to litigate" the case and work closely with Germany to "effectuate Demjanjuk's removal from the United States."
"He will face his moment of justice," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who is certain that Demjanjuk will lose his latest appeal and be deported to Germany.
While acknowledging that Tuesday was a "traumatic" day for Demjanjuk's family, Hier said ill health and old age is no reason not to hold the death camp guard accountable.
"I don't have any pity for the fact that he's 89 because I think of the victims he helped push into the gas chambers who would have loved to have 89 years."
Demjanjuk moaned and wailed as immigration agents carefully lowered him into a wheelchair and rolled him down the hall of his yellow brick house in Seven Hills, Ohio, according to an AFP reporter invited into the family's home.
His wife, Vera, sobbed and kissed him goodbye before he was carried down the steps into a waiting white van after being examined by a doctor and meeting with a priest.
"This is just like the communists who came to your door and took a family member away and you never saw them again," she said in Ukrainian.
"He did nothing here ... And our country treats him like that."
Shari Kochman, spokesperson for local chapter of Anti-Defamation League, was unhappy with the stay of deportation order.
"It's an abuse of justice. Justice delayed is justice denied," she said.
"If nothing else he is here in this country illegally," she said. "It's proven that he lied on his immigration papers and needs to be deported."
Former wartime inmates of Nazi camps in occupied Poland identified Demjanjuk -- who changed his name from Ivan when he emigrated to the United States in 1952 -- as the notorious Ukrainian prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" during a 1977 US Justice Department investigation.
Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by a court in Israel in 1988, but his conviction was overturned five years later by Israel's Supreme Court after statements from other former guards identified another man as the sadistic "Ivan."
He was returned to the United States despite strenuous objections from Holocaust survivors and Jewish groups, who said he should be retried based on the ample evidence that he was a death camp guard.
Demjanjuk regained his US citizenship, which was first stripped in 1981, after an appeals court ruled in 1998 the government recklessly withheld exculpatory evidence.
The US government filed new charges a year later using fresh evidence that surfaced following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He was again stripped of his US citizenship in 2002, but remained in Ohio long after his appeals of that decision were exhausted because the United States could not find a country willing to accept the now-stateless alleged war criminal.
The latest legal battle has dragged on for more than a month since Germany issued a warrant for Demjanjuk's arrest on March 11.
Demjanjuk's lawyer has argued the octogenarian is in poor health, and that jailing and trying him in Germany would cause him pain amounting to torture. His family says he suffers from kidney disease and blood disorders.
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A decades-long saga over the alleged war crimes committed by Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was set to drag on for days if not weeks Wednesday as his family prepared their latest appeal of his deportation.
Demjanjuk, 89, was granted a last minute reprieve Tuesday as he waited in a federal building to be extradited to Germany to face charges of aiding in the murder of more than 29,000 Jews during World War II.
Just hours earlier he had been carried moaning in a wheelchair out of his yellow brick home in Seven Hills, Ohio by five immigration agents as his family sobbed in the driveway.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowed Demjanjuk to return home with an electronic tracking bracelet around his ankle, but said it would continue to pursue the case.
Demjanjuk's lawyer has argued that his client is in poor health, and that jailing and trying him in Germany would cause him pain amounting to torture.
His family says he is bedridden and suffers from a host of ailments including kidney disease, arthritis and cancer which makes him unfit to fly and criticized US and German authorities for putting his life at risk.
"We could have been making funeral arrangements today," his son, John Demjanjuk Jr. told AFP.
"The Germans have a medical opinion that Mr. Demjanjuk is not fit for trial, and that it would be a further danger to his life to fly. And that danger does not diminish with an oxygen machine on board the plane. What if it fails?"
The younger Demjanjuk, who insists that his father did not participate in the extermination of Jews, said he is confident the US federal appeals court will block deportation on medical grounds.
Putting the octogenarian on trial will send an important signal that those who participate in genocide will be "be pursued until their last days on earth," said Jonathan Drimmera, a former federal prosecutor who spent years in charge of Demjanjuk's case.
"The evidence against Demjanjuk is rock solid, and based on seven authentic Nazi-created wartime documents that contain Demjanjuk's name, biographical and physical details, and even a photograph.
"A former comrade who served with Demjanjuk at the camp specifically recalled that Demjanjuk escorted prisoners to the gas chambers as part of his daily work, and was repeatedly assigned to gather prisoners from surrounding ghettos to deliver them to the camp to be killed."
Tuesday's ruling was just the latest twist in a long saga for the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, who changed his name from Ivan to John when he emigrated to the United States in 1952.
Former wartime inmates of Nazi camps in occupied Poland identified him as notorious Ukrainian prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" during a 1977 US Justice Department investigation.
An Israeli court sentenced him to death in 1988, but the country's Supreme Court overturned the conviction five years later, after statements from former guards identified another man as the sadistic "Ivan."
He was returned to the United States despite strenuous objections from Holocaust survivors and Jewish groups who said he should be retried based on the ample evidence that he was a death camp guard.
The US government filed new charges in 1999 using fresh evidence that surfaced following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He was stripped of his US citizenship in 2002 but remained in Ohio long after his appeals of that decision were exhausted because the United States could not find a country willing to accept the now-stateless alleged war criminal.
Germany issued a warrant for Demjanjuk's arrest ohttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/15/2543749.htmn March 11.
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Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has been granted a last-minute stay of deportation shortly after US agents carried the 89-year-old man moaning from his home in a wheelchair to face trial in Germany.
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near Sobibór in occupied Poland.
[2][3] Since his conviction was pending appeal at the time of his death,
[3][4][5] Demjanjuk remains presumed innocent under German law, and his earlier conviction is invalidated. According to the Munich state court, Demjanjuk does not have a criminal record.
[6]
Demjanjuk was born in
Ukraine, and during
World War II was drafted into the
Soviet Red Army, where he was captured as a German
prisoner of war. In 1952 he emigrated from Germany to the United States, and was granted citizenship in 1958 whereupon he formally
anglicized his name from "
Ivan" to "John".
[7][8]
In 1986 he was
deported to
Israel to stand trial for war crimes, after being mistakenly identified by Israeli
Holocaust survivors as "
Ivan the Terrible", a notorious guard at the
Treblinka extermination camp in
Nazi occupied Poland. Demjanjuk was accused of committing murder and acts of extraordinarily savage violence against camp prisoners during 1942–43. He was convicted of having committed
crimes against humanity and
sentenced to death there in 1988. The verdict was overturned by the
Israeli Supreme Court in 1993, based on new evidence that
"Ivan the Terrible" was likely another man, Ivan Marchenko.
[10] After the trial, in September 1993, he returned to his home in
Ohio. In 1998 his citizenship was restored after a United States federal appeals court ruled that prosecutors had suppressed
exculpatory evidence concerning his identity.
[11]
In 2001 Demjanjuk was charged again, this time on the grounds that he had, instead, served as a guard named Ivan Demjanjuk at the
Sobibór and
Majdanek camps in
Nazi occupied Poland and at the
Flossenbürg camp in Germany. Demjanjuk became again a
stateless person in 2002 (until his death in 2012).
[5][12][13] His deportation was again ordered in 2005, but after exhausting his appeals in 2008 he still remained in the United States, as no country would agree to accept him at that time. On 2 April 2009, it was announced that Demjanjuk would be deported to Germany, where he would stand trial, since in a bid to disassociate from the nation's past Germany began the policy of prosecuting prisoners of war from other nations whom the German Nazi made the accessories to their crimes. On 11 May, Demjanjuk left his Cleveland home by ambulance, and was taken to the airport, where he was deported by plane, arriving in Germany the next morning.
[14][15] On 13 July, he was formally charged with 27,900 counts of acting as an accessory to murder, one for each person who died at Sobibor during the time he was alleged to have served as a guard. On 30 November, Demjanjuk's trial began in
Munich.
[16]
On 12 May 2011, Demjanjuk was convicted pending appeal by an ordinary German criminal court as an
accessory to the murder of 27,900 at
Sobibor and sentenced to five years in prison. The interim conviction was later annulled, because Demjanjuk died before his appeal could be heard.
[17][18][19][20][21] He was later released pending trial and final verdict by the
German Appellate Court. He lived at a German nursing home in
Bad Feilnbach,
[12] where he died on 17 March 2012.
[22] Despite decades of legal wrangling and controversy, Demjanjuk died a free man and legally innocent.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/bal-nazi-camp-case0408,0,1047377.story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk
