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Dutch Jew recalls lucky escape before Nazi trial
Reuters
Published: 30.11.09, 07:49
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1. We had him...... and we let him go...
Talula ,   Israel   (11.30.09)
Our country, that lost 6 million in the Holocaust - let this evil rat go - they let him home to his family where he lived happily as a free man - after taking the lives of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers... because there was insufficient evidence? a technicality? Bet he doesn't get to walk out of the German court a free man.
2. try him in Texas
blonde shiksa   (12.01.09)
This man has blood on his hands. Though it is pitiable to see an old man in a wheelchair standing trial, his crimes are so severe that the passage of time in now way mitigates what he did. It's too bad Germany doesn't have the death penalty. It would be better for his trial to take place in Texas.
3. 1& 2: If ISRAEL found he was NOT Ivan the Terrible, why is
Rivkah   (12.01.09)
he being persecuted again? Look at photos of Ivan the Terrible and then look at photos of Demjanjuk as a young man. They are NOT the same person! What you want is for an innocent man to be wrongly convicted or harrassed to death so that his blood will cry out from the ground and curse the land. At least Israel won't be cursed by that, but Germany could be if he dies a prisoner. Framing innocent people is a favorite pastime of police and prosecutors. They have 10,000 ways to frame the innocent and are proud of that! Wait until they die and go to hell because of all the police and prosecutor slanders and perjuries.
4. To No. 3 (confusion)
USA   (12.02.09)
Rivkah, I think you might be a little confused. The trial in Germany is not saying that he is Ivan the Terrible from Treblinka. It has been proven that he is not that person. However, he is now standing charged with having committed atrocities at a different camp, not as Ivan the Terrible, but as John Demjanjuk. Think of it this way. Suppose you stole your neighbor's car. Then suppose you were arrested and charged with having robbed a grocery store (something you didn't do.) Once you were exonerated from robbing the grocery store, it doesn't mean that you are now off the hook for having stolen your neighbor's car. You could still be arrested and charged with that offense.
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