Nazi Death Camp Guard Will be Tried: Prosecutor

Reuters ^ | 2/25/09 | Erik Kirschbaum

[Sarajevo]

If he is sentenced, it would BECAUSE he was found guilty.

How many damn times does he have to go on trial before someone finally gets it through their thick skulls that he may ACTUALLY be innocent of the charges?

Give it a break!

[umbra43]

If he murdered people he should be put to death. Its that simple. Is the evidence really there that he was a guard???

[sofaman]

or he may not be innocent. Twice in US courts, he was found to have lied on his citizenship application. Twice on the merits of the evidence, he was stripped of his US citizenship.

The Weisenthal Center seems to believe that the evidence is overwhelming.

The Israeli Supreme Court, which is notoriously left leaning, disagreed and Demjanjuk was deported to Germany.

So far the count (or Court) is 1 ball & 2 strikes.

[RedMonqey]

Besides, he was evidently known as "Ivan the Terrible", if it was in fact him.

He was cleared of those charges of being "Ivan Grozny" or "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka, by none other than the state of Israel. Seems the Soviets were caught tampering with the evidence.

However it seems he was a guard at another camp, which brings up the question again. Is being a guard at a concentration camp enough to be charged with.... what?

The Germans seem to think he alone is responsible for the he was responsible for killing 29,000 Jewish prisoners at the Sobibor extermination camp.

Really? I'd that puts the likes of Jeffery Dalmer and Ted Bundy to shame.

So are the Germans right and he deserves.... what?

Which brings us back to the American comparison.

Excuse me. I would hardly equate a guard in Nazi Death Camp with one of our soldiers.

But of course We are Americans.

But ask a jury of, say, the average Arab who thinks Americans are criminals anyway. Just as they have been fed nothing but anti American images all their life so has our media has spoon-fed us into believing anyone associated with the Holocaust, down to the lowly camp guard, deserves the death penalty for doing nothing more than standing in a rickety guard tower on cold snowy nights.

Oversimplification? Absolutely!! But so is convicting a man on flimsy evidence.

Demjanjuk's no saint but in a country where murderers and terrorists are teaching at our best universities, by comparison, he is small potatoes indeed.

[RedMonqey]

....why don’t I hear this kind of emotional charge against the other leftists of the world that turned their backs or contributed to the 150-200 million or so victims of communism?

A question right out of my mouth and one you will never heard a peep out of any liberal.

My theory?

They have successfully planted the idea of Fascism as extreme right wing capitalism. (it's not) in order to discredit western democratic capitalism.

Communism/Socialism/Fascism are more or less the same creature but the Leftist media must portray the victims of Fascism (i.e,Capitalism) as the greater tragedy. Feint Ignorance to the greater body count by Communism aids in the coverup of the great travesty of Socialism in all it’s forms while allowing hope for the future creation of the Perfected Socialist State .

A masturbatory fantasy for the Leftist.

[Thorin]

A cheap and tawdry political stunt by a German prosecutor looking for fame.

[DarkWaters]

Your probably right on the money. God forbid they get a chance to do this to the whole world. The death toll will be in the billions the next time around.

[RedMonqey]

And with no America as an “Arensal of Democracy” to pull the world’s chestnuts outta the fire, billions would be about right.