JOHN DEMJANJUK AND THE AMAZING HYPOCRISY OF GERMAN JUSTICE

Picture: Däubler - Gmelin

by John Rosenthal
Last week, the Munich district attorney’s office announced that it was charging the 88-year-old John Demjanjuk with some 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his alleged activity as a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp during the Second World War. Germany is seeking the long-time Ohio resident’s extradition from the United States and all the signs suggest that the Obama administration is prepared to facilitate the request. The spectacular development, coming over 60 years after the end of the Second World War, will lead many Americans to believe that Germany is exceptionally thorough and vigilant about prosecuting Nazi war crimes. And this is indeed presumably the purpose of the Demjanjuk indictment – for the reality could hardly be more different.
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