Israeli Trials

On April 18, 1988, an Israeli court solemnly declared "without hesitation" that a simple Ukrainian-born auto worker, John Demjanjuk, was "the sadistic motorman who had operated the gas chambers at the Nazi death camp in Treblinka." When the verdict was announced, hundreds in the Jerusalem courtroom jumped to their feet …

In 1993, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that John Demjanjuk was not guilty in regard to the allegations that he was the notorious guard of Treblinka known as "Ivan the Terrible." His United States citizenship was restored shortly thereafter. The Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) has recently revived …

The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a Show-Trial, by Yoram Sheftel. London: Victor Gollancz, 1994. 379 pages. Lesya Jones is the former Secretary of the Canadian Charitable Committee in Defence of John Demjanjuk. This review first appeared in The Ukrainian Voice (Winnipeg), July 31, 1995. On July 29, …

On May 13th news headlines around the world announced the conviction of John Demjanjuk for having been a guard at the infamous Sobibor concentration camp. Demjanjuk it would seem was found guilty as an accessory to the murder of some 28,060 people. Oddly however if one reads beyond the headlines …

In the interests of fairness and truth, this review was sent to Deborah Lipstadt and Christopher Browning prior to its publication here. They were asked to correct any statements that they believe to be false or misleading. No response from either has been received by press time. (Note: Page numbers …

Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police, edited by Jochen von Lang in collaboration with Claus Sibyll. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 1983, 293pp. The kidnapping, trial, and execution of Adolf Eichmann, the German officer alleged by the Israelis …

On February 20, 2003, I received an email request from a University of California at Irvine student newspaper reporter, Caroline Song ([email protected]), in which she asked me to comment on Professor Elizabeth Loftus and the John Demjanjuk Trial that took place in Israel during 1987. Loftus is "Distinguished Professor of …

John Demjanjuk’s vindication – culminating in his recent reunion with his family in the United States – has special meaning for Jerome Brentar. For more than a decade, this deeply religious man of Croatian ancestry and anti-Communist conviction has devoted countless hours of his own time and considerable money from …

The Israeli Supreme Court has finally acquitted John Demjanjuk of the charge of being "Ivan the Terrible," the Treblinka guard who is said to have killed and tortured countless Jews. The acquittal is also a vindication of Pat Buchanan, who led the calls for the old Ukrainian's release. It has …

Witness for the Defense, by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Hardbound. 288 pages. Illustrations. $ 19.95. ISBN: 0-312-05537-4. Eyewitness testimony is the cornerstone of the Holocaust story. Much more than physical or documentary evidence, the accounts of "Holocaust survivors" have been crucial in convincing …

I am a man more sinned against than sinning!" (King Lear in Shakespeare's King Lear) John Demjanjuk is dead. The Age, Melbourne’s more intellectual daily newspaper, reported this on 19th March under the prejudicial and ambiguous heading ‘Nazi camp guard dead.’ Quoting the Washington Post, the newspaper referred to Demjanjuk …

John Demjanjuk, railroaded to Israel on bogus charges of murdering upwards of a million Jews in gas chambers at Treblinka, though now seen almost universally as innocent of that ludicrous charge, may still be strung up by our allies who run the only democracy in the Middle East. How has …

The highest Israeli court finds there is not enough evidence to prove that he is Ivan the Terrible. On TV, Demjanjuk looks fine. A working class male. Your typical yuppie Playboy peruser never would have made it. I'm happy for Demjanjuk and for his family. I've always feared that he …

Israel collects war criminals. Of course, in the course of its never-ending conflicts with its neighbors, it has produced its own abundant crops of home-grown, even native, war criminals, but here, I wish to concentrate on war criminals, real and supposed, imported from other lands whose crimes even antedate Israel …

There are points of similarity, it is true, between the Nazi wickedness and other wickedness at various periods of the world's history. The Jews, for instance, slaughtered the Amalekites down to the last man, woman and child because their god, they believed, had ordered his chosen people to do so, …

In his March 4, 1996 column in Newsweek magazine, George F. Will attacked Patrick J. Buchanan for his March 17, 1990 column about Diesel exhaust. Buchanan had written: "Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody. In 1988, 97 kids trapped 400 feet underground in a Washington, …

Introduction Claiming he spent most of WWII as a prisoner of the Germans, John Demjanjuk gained entry to the United States in 1952. In 1977, he was first sought out by US Federal Prosecutors, who insisted he was a war criminal who murdered Jews during WWII. Years later, in 1986, …

Il revisionismo "anti"israeliano del Battista non è piaciuto ("i$rael uber alles!") alle elette vestali hasbariote pseudodiasporiche che, praticamente, hanno scritto: "NON E' VERO! Il vero problema creato dall'ebrea arendt allo sterminazionismo "laico", religiosamente $hoatico" ... ..." l'autrice del reportage da Gerusalemme aveva reso Eichmann «esteticamente accettabile» e gli ebrei «esteticamente …

Norimberga ultimo atto L’impiccagione dei gerarchi nazionalsocialisti Illegittimità del tribunale – Torture fisiche e psicologiche – Il vanto del boia Di Giacomo Busulini - (da L’ Uomo Libero) Norimberga fu il giudizio dei vincitori sui vinti. Non servì principi giuridici, ma gli interessi delle potenze che lo organizzarono, quelle che avevano sconfitto …

The kidnapping of Eichmann on May 11, 1960 spawned numerous books and movies but, it was really well short of spectacular. Over 30 Mossad agents were involved with three agents accosting and overpowering the 54-year-old Eichmann as he came home one night late from work. Eichmann had made it easy for the kidnappers. He followed a consistent pattern of taking the same public bus home and was unarmed.

Operation Finale is officially a box office flop, with box office receipts falling well below the production budget.

Choreographing Israel's best Nazi friend - before hanging him.

The Adolf Eichmann trial created hugely increased public awareness of the so-called Holocaust in Israel and worldwide. Deborah Lipstadt writes: “This trial, whose main objective was bringing a Nazi who helped organize and carry out genocide to justice, transformed Jewish life and society as much as it passed judgment on a murderer.”