Wednesday, July 6, 2011

A German court gave five years, Demjanjuk

Munich court sentenced a 91-year old Ukrainian John Demjanjuk to five years in prison on charges of involvement in the murder of Jews during World War II, reports BBC. I. Demjanjuk was found guilty of that in 1943 he, as a security guard in a Nazi death camp Sobibor in Poland, became complicit in the murder 28,060 Jews. It is believed that many people have been killed over that time while he was a guard camp. Meanwhile, the investigation has not been able to provide evidence of specific crimes I. Demjanjuk. Sam I. Demjanjuk has denied all accusations. According to him, he was captured and he was a victim of the Nazis. Even before the verdict announcement I. Demjanjuk's lawyer said he would appeal. His lawyer said that during the process in the Bavarian state prosecutor failed to prove guilt I. Demjanjuk, and asked to acquit his client. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk I. emigrated to America after the war in 1950. He claimed that he fought in the Soviet Army, but in 1942 he was captured by the Germans and most of the war held in German camps. But the Americans showed him photographs of victims of Nazism, many of whom recognized him as an employee concentration camps. In 1977, the trial in which GI Demjanjuk caught in collaboration with the Nazis. In early 1980 I. Demjanjuk was given to Israel, where he was again transferred to the court. There he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the deaths of Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp (also located in Poland), but in 1993 the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the conviction of I. Demjanjuk for lack of evidence. Justified returned to the U.S., but in 2002 he was denied U.S. citizenship because he hid relationship with the Nazis. And in 2009 the U.S. authorities extradited I. Demjanjuk to Germany. Ministry of Industry

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