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Germany: The Trial of Demjanjuk Begins
Sixteen years after being exonerated in Israel, John Demjanjuk has again been brought to a trial which will attempt to determine to what extent he participated in the destruction of 29,700 people during the Holocaust. In this trial he is accused of assisting to murder Jews in the Sobibor camp.
Nearly 300 people squeezed into the small courtroom where the trial will take place after waiting since 5:00 in the morning, "For me the trial has enormous significance. This is the first time I have the opportunity to make someone who took part in the murder of my mother and eldest brother pay for his actions," said Kurt Gutman, one of many witnesses expected to take the stand in Munich.
President Shimon Peres commented on the opening of the trial and expressed his hope that Germany would be successful in bringing about justice. "True, he's not young and healthy anymore – but justice always remains young," Peres said during a memorial ceremony to paratroopers who were murdered in World War II.
Demjanjuk was deported to Israel in 1986 and later sentenced to death there in 1988 for war crimes, based on his identification by Israeli Holocaust survivors as "Ivan the Terrible," a notorious SS guard at the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps during the period 1942–1943 who committed murder and acts of extraordinarily savage violence against camp prisoners. His conviction for crimes against humanity was later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993 due to a finding of reasonable doubt based on evidence suggesting that Demjanjuk was not "Ivan the Terrible" and had, in fact, been a guard at camps besides the one at Treblinka.
Now, he stands trial again for crimes against humanity at Sobibor. In this trial the prosecutors believe there is irrefutable evidence of criminal involvement.
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