What could Demjanjuk do? If he somehow managed to escape the Nazis and return to the Soviet Union, they would have killed him, because Stalin’s policy was that any Red Army soldiers who were taken prisoner were traitors and subject to the death penalty.
Well it wasn’t like he was an innocent busboy. He knew they were serving up death on an industrial scale. He may not have had many attractive options - but it wasn’t like he didn’t know what was going on.
That was my point.
And under “Operation Keelhaul,” after the war, the Allies sent thousands of Eastern Bloc civilians and troops back to Stalin where they were often SHOT in front of their British truck drivers before getting off the trucks.
Many of those who knew where they were being sent, plunged their heads through the windows of the barracks in which they were housed and, pressing their throats against the broken glass, slashed their jugular veins, exsanguinating before their guards could react.
When he was with WERE in Cleveland, my late friend Mort Downey, Jr. did HOURS on the John D’s case, implicating the OSI division and Neal Shearer of the Justice Dept. in the persecution of the man, the forged ID card his primary evidence. John was even tried in an ISRAELI court and found not guilty of being Ivan the Terrible.
The moral is DON’T CHALLENGE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT as the truth is no longer a positive defense. If they want you, bend over and kiss your backside gooddbye.
Having said that, except for the DU trolls who lurk here and try to create trouble for FR, most all of us will soon find ourselves on Holder’s Hotsheet.