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Nazi death camp guard to go on trial
Allan Hall10 Mar 2009
Germany is to begin extradition proceedings to bring a Nazi concentration camp guard to trial in Munich for the murders of 29,000 people.
John Demjanjuk, 88, was cleared in the Nineties of being a notorious guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" who herded women and children into the gas chambers of Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.
Prosecutors accepted that paperwork supplied by the former Soviet Union was fake, but investigators examined his background and believe he was a guard at another camp in Poland, Sobibor, where 250,000 people died between March 1942 and October 1943.
Demjanjuk, who has lived in the US since 1951 and denies war crimes, was stripped of his citizenship last May after the Supreme Court refused to hear his final appeal against extradition.
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Note that they are attempting to bring him to trial in Germany because Israel refused to put him on trial again after his wrongful conviction for being "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka was overturned. It really ought to make people think about this case if Israel, the Jewish state, refuses to try a man who is charged with being a Nazi war criminal!
Also, the latest news from this side of the pond: A US court has blocked Demjanjuk's deportation, at least temporarily.
- Craig, San Francisco, California, USA, 14/04/2009 23:08
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Steve
This wasn't an act of war - it was an act of murder. 'Orders'to murder count for nothing.
I hope he gets all he deserves.
- Nigel, St Albans, 10/03/2009 16:08
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Better yet, try Zionist war criminals for current Palestinian genocide.
- Uspatriot, Miami, FL, 10/03/2009 16:07
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Until all soldiers have the right to refuse to obey orders from their superiors; then crimes will continue to be committed by those forced to obey orders etc.
We all remember the few soldiers that refused for many different reasons to go over the top in WW1; and for refusing to obey certain death orders; they were lined up against a wall at dawn; and shot dead etc.
The best way for this all never to happen again; is to give all fighting men the choice to refuse orders they feel are wrong or criminal etc.
Like-wise; if an Officer acts against human decency and human morality; the soldiers should have the same rights as officers; and line up the Generals and Field Marshals; and shoot them instead; this would in turn, reduce war crimes.
- Mickyinlondon, london, 10/03/2009 15:24
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There was a war on,he was following orders.
In that case nick and try the British war vets that fought and killed over that period.
- Steve, London, 10/03/2009 14:14
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