Nazi guard to be deported

Enoch · Dec 30, 2005

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A US immigration judge ordered the deportation of John Demjanjuk, who was a guard in Nazi camps during World War II. The judge did not accept Demjanjuk's lawyer's claim that if he were to be deported to Ukraine he may face torture.

In a decision issued Wednesday in Arlington, chief immigration judge Michael Creppy said that Demjanjuk had lied to US immigration authorities when he entered the country after the war and did not disclose the fact that he had assisted the Nazis by serving as a guard at concentration and death camps.
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Dr. Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Weisenthal Center in Israel, said Thursday that the deportation decision might be difficult to implement due to Ukraine's reluctance to prosecute and sentence Nazi era war criminals. "Since Ukraine became a democracy there was no attempt to bring to justice Nazi war criminals," said Zuroff, who also noted that in the Weisenthal Center's annual report on dealing with war criminals, Ukraine received an 'F'.
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"If we'd ignore crimes only because of the criminal's age, we would be sending a message that one can commit genocide and not face justice," Zuroff said.
The case against Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker living in a Cleveland suburb, has gone on for almost three decades, since evidence first emerged concerning his past as a Nazi camp guard. Demjanjuk was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a sadistic guard from the Treblinka death camp. This issue later became central to the legal dispute in the US and Israel.

Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel in 1986 and was sentenced to death by a special panel in Jerusalem. In 1993 the Israeli Supreme Court found flaws in the documents identifying Demjanjuk as "Ivan the terrible" and he was acquitted.

Demjanjuk returned to the US and faced another round of legal procedures, this time because he had not revealed his past service in the Nazi camps to US immigration.
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Creppy concluded that there is no threat of torture in Ukraine and added that there is no evidence that Ukraine arrests or prosecutes citizens that assisted the Nazis. Creppy said in his decision that if the Ukraine will refuse to accept Demjanjuk, he could be deported to Poland or Germany.
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May the faces of the innocent haunt him until death.

Repent62 · Dec 31, 2005

That is very interesting...I wondered whatever happened with that case, I haven't heard anything about it in the news lately. What source did you get that from? I would like to read the source for myself. (Nevermind...I see the source tucked away at the top left corner)

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