IS IT TIME TO STOP HARASSING FORMER NAZIS?
January 31, 2008 at 9:26 am (History)
(Ben Heine © Cartoons)
A man whose name has been in and out of the newspapers for the past 30 years is in the headlines again. John Demjanjuk, alias Ivan the Terrible, is facing deportation from the United States to his native Ukraine.
Nazi guard Demjanjuk could face deportation
Appeals court rules against accused Nazi guards appeal, rendering him exposed to deportation from US
| Reuters |
An appeals court on Wednesday ruled against accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, a decision that could bring the retired Ohio auto worker only one step away from deportation to his native Ukraine.
The Cincinnati-based US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled that a US immigration judge had the authority to order the 87-year-old Demjanjuk deported, marking the latest turn in a 30-year legal battle.
His lawyers had said before Wednesday’s ruling that they would pursue their appeal to the US Supreme Court if they lost in the appeals court.
Demjanjuk was once wrongly convicted of being the sadistic Nazi death camp guard “Ivan the Terrible” and sentenced to death in Israel. The Israeli Supreme Court later overturned the conviction, saying another man was probably “Ivan,” a sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp where 870,000 people died.
But he was stripped of his US citizenship again in 2002, with a judge ruling that he had worked as a guard at other death camps.
The issue before the appeals court was whether former Chief US Immigration Judge Michael Creppy had the authority to rule on his deportation.
During oral arguments last November Demjanjuk’s lawyer, John Broadley, told the appeals panel that Creppy was not authorized to judge the case because he had held an administrative, not adjudicative, position on the immigration review board.
But in Wednesday’s ruling a three-judge panel of the appeals court held that Creppy “clearly meets the statutory definition of ‘immigration judge.”‘
The wrong man?
Demjanjuk was ordered deported in December 2005 following a ruling that he had been a guard at Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland. In December 2006 Creppy had dismissed an appeal by Demjanjuk to have a deportation order overturned.
Demjanjuk’s lawyers have said he could be prosecuted or face torture if he is sent back to Ukraine– or Germany or Poland if Ukraine refused to accept him.
He was first stripped of his US citizenship in 1981 and extradited to Israel, where he was sentenced to death in 1988 on eyewitness testimony from Holocaust survivors that he was the Ivan of the Treblinka camp.
The Israeli Supreme Court overturned his death sentence in 1993 and freed him after records from the former Soviet Union showed another man, Ivan Marchenko, was probably the sadistic guard at Treblinka.
The United States restored Demjanjuk’s citizenship in 1998 based on the wrongful accusations but the Justice Department refilled its case against him, offering as evidence a frayed German identity card that convinced a judge he had been a Nazi guard at other camps.
Demjanjuk, said to be in ill health and not following the progress of his case, lives near Cleveland.
He has said he was drafted into the Soviet Army and captured by the Germans. He immigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized citizen in 1958.
Kungfublood said,
January 31, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Most nazi’s and their victims are dead and have probably reincarnated already as racist Zionists and Palestinians-the wheel turns and never stops,before you do.
Curt Maynard said,
January 31, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Yes, it’s long past time to stop harrassing former German soldiers.
TM said,
January 31, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“Israel has refused a Polish request for the extradition of Solomon Morel, 87, alleged to have committed crimes against humanity as the head of a labour camp holding ethnic Germans in Poland’s southern Silesian region immediately after World War II, Poland’s Rzeczpospolita daily reported Wednesday.
Poland made its second request to Israel for the Israeli citizen’s extradition on a charge of genocide in April 2004, after an earlier request was refused in 1998.”
Namehere said,
January 31, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I hope future generations hunt zionist war criminals for 60 years too. Would that be Ironic or simply coincidental?
Joshua said,
February 1, 2008 at 12:25 am
The U.S. has no jurisdiction over other countries. They can’t extradite him to Ukrania, or Germany, or Poland, because he is not a citizen of these countries. He was an American citizen and is now stateless.
These three countries have already stated that they don’t give citizenship to a suspected Nazi war criminal. And they are under no obligation to do so.
deathby360 said,
February 1, 2008 at 5:07 am
30 years is an awfully long time. I wonder, has John Demjanjuk shown any remorse for his past actions? For all I know the man has converted to Judaism.
Regardless of his current actions, it just feels wrong to attempt to convict this man AGAIN for crimes that took place over thirty years ago.
Great site, I’ll definitely be back.
just4meus said,
February 1, 2008 at 5:09 am
Why don’t you ask this to a holocaust survivor?
zionismkills said,
February 1, 2008 at 5:09 am
Without a doubt, it must end!
Zionofascists and their lackeys have abused the power they have obtained.
This reminds me of Ernst Zundel, a German-Canadian book publisher and Historical revisionist who is currently a prisoner of the Zionofascists and neo-Marxists in Germany.
I’ll be posting a video on Mr. Zundel soon and I invite you to watch it.
http://ZionismKills.wordpress.com
EXPOSE THE EXPLOITERS, FREE THE EXPLOITED!
liberdux said,
February 1, 2008 at 5:44 am
The Germans were the last defenders of Western civilization, and for this they will never be forgiven.
mikester420 said,
February 1, 2008 at 9:27 am
I think we should worry more about the currently active Nazis who are in control of the US government. This IS fascism, folks…….