[PzLdr]

And we allowed Klaus Barbie and a bunch of SD types to work for us, get our protection, and escape with forged documentation. Demjanuk was real small fish.

[bajabaja]

And we allowed Klaus Barbie and a bunch of SD types to work for us, get our protection, and escape with forged documentation. Demjanuk was real small fish.

Klaus Barbie was tried in France (he was known as the Butcher of Lyon) and imprisoned there until his death. You probably have seen the movie, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. His escape to South America is detailed there, and from that film and its interviews with US post war intelligence officers, it is not a clear case of his activities being known to the US. There were many sins either overlooked, swept under the rug, along with some prosecutions; but there was also a lot of not knowing who was who and who did what in '46 to '50. Barbie died in prison, a better fate than he deserved, but I disagree that, at the time, it was clear cut to US post-war intelligence, who was who and what each of them did individually.

[Alberta's Child]

That's a good point. If Demjanjuk had been a rocket scientist who worked for the Nazis, he would have had the U.S. government fabricate his papers for him in order to get him here safely after the war.

When you think about it, what it all comes down to is that Demjanjuk's only real crime was that he was an auto worker and not a rocket scientist.