Nazi guard found guilty over mass murder released pending appeal

May 12, 2011 10:42

A Munich court has ordered Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to be released pending appeal of his conviction. He was found guilty of aiding the killing of thousands of Jews in Sobibor camp in Poland during World War II.

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Anonymous user 04.05.2013 17:49

What a travesty of justice! Ofcourse you had courts subdued by american and israeli intelligence!

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Bob Sergeant (unregistered) 19.07.2012 19:13

The Csatary case will undoubtedly be linked to that of John Demjanjuk; however, Demjanjuk's conviction in 2011was not upheld.  A few days after Demjanjuk's death, the German court confirmed that Demjanjuk was deemed innocent, and that Demjanjuk's conviction had not been upheld because his appeal had not been heard; and furthermore, that Demjanjuk has no criminal record.This was reported on March 23, 2012 in Haaretz Israeli News.See:  Convicted Nazi criminal Demjanjuk deemed innocent in Germany over technicalityhttp://w ww.haaretz.com/print -edition/news/convic ted-nazi-criminal-de mjanjuk-deemed-innoc ent-in-germany-over- technicality-1.42028 0Of course, in civilized countries, the presumption of innocence is not a mere technicality, but a fundamental legal principle.I trust RT will properly inform its readers of John Demjanjuk's innocence.

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$€£ƒ Ϯя@Đ€я 18.07.2012 16:52

With a jewish lawyer, he could postpone his appeal trial till after his death.

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rururu (unregistered) 21.05.2012 06:45

 Typical Russian coward. Really despicable maggot, a true Russian.

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Dan McLean 29.06.2011 12:01

@ from Poland 
Actually Dachau camp outside Munich was used for 8 years after the war to detain German prisoners of war, other camps were used to such as Belsen, there were also makeshift camps set up, a simple google on the net can reveal the extent of it via historical websites, although beware of personal sites which can greatly deviate from the truth. The holocaust is another story, I have personally visited most of the camps and each one has signs up stating that no gassings took place except for gassing clothing and bedding due to disease and lice. The only camp I have visited which still states gassings took place is Auschwitz however there is no sign of a chamber apart from what looks like an air raid shelter next to the old SS barracks. Just to note, the USA built a gas chamber at Belsen after the war but had to admit no gas chamber ever existed and it was only to show what one would have looked like. The figure of 6 million is actually now been lowered t 1.5M according to historical factual records and most of these dies of Typhus which was spreading at an alarming rate.Yes barbaric crimes were played on both sides, but if you research the numbers the allies did kill more civilians than Germany.

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from Poland (unregistered) 27.06.2011 23:38

@Dan McLean
There were no concetration camps for Germans in Poland. Those were transitional camps and were ex-territorial - they belonged to Soviet Union and the Red Army not to Poland. Most of those people were quickly send to soviet occupation zone in Germany in matter of few weeks. They were held in transitional camps until numbers were high enough to justify the transport. Most Germans fled long before Red Army came and even after occupation most left voluntarily. People with mixed heritage or even polish tried to show their german origins just because in Germany they had better perspectives of life and work than in devastated Poland.
And no - Germans killed more people than allies, just the Holocaust makes attacks on civilian population during allied bombing raids very small in comparison.

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Dan McLean 27.06.2011 10:17

During the war years Stalin killed 40m people, the USA dropped two atom bombs on two Jap citys killing millions of innocent people, in the USA they built concentration camps for American Japs and miss treated them. The Allies destroyed most citys in Germany at the end of the war, these were not military targets but innocent civilians. Most concentration camps in Germany and Poland were used by the allies to hold german prissoners, many of these people were kicked and beaten as well as starved. Why did none of the allied leaders face war crimes? simply because they were the victors who wrote history with their own version. Fact: during WW2 the allies killed more people that what the Germans did. These old guys who were in the SS should be left alone, they have to live with the images and memories of what happened, unless of course they want to try British, Russian and USA soilders and leaders for crimes they commited. Just my honest thoughts.

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ravenmaven 21.05.2011 05:58

keeping the lie alive and the pity party going so the money keeps rolling in by the most despicable extortion methods known to mankind~the same criminal cabal now runs the global banking system and owns the media as well, they are the diabolical clan comitting genocide in the middle east. 

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Marzipan6 15.05.2011 02:08

Twilight, please provide factual corroboration of your wild claim of Estonia holding "annual Nazi marches."

If you cannot provide such evidence -- and you cannot, because there is none, and no such events occur -- then it would be appropriate for you to moderate your language.

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Jessie Jacobs 12.05.2011 16:56

28,000  People he killed... Come on... He is 91 years old... He was in WWII but does it make it humanly right to sentence someone who did something 68 years ago... COME ON... that's like taking someones Popsicle and 68 years later punching them in the face, but you might not have actually proof that he did that. Give the guy a break.

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twilight 12.05.2011 16:25

Where is the media when Lithuania and Estonia, NATO members, hold annual Nazi marches.  Where is the media when NATO allows such monstrous marches.  Where is the media when by it's silence, NATO sanctions such horrible displays of aggression towards the civilized world.  We all can see that this is a well organized which hunt.  You can't hide it.

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flatdog1 12.05.2011 15:12

Only 28,000?? He's a puppy. Why, in the last 20 years or so the Americans, British, Jews and the rest of that abhorrent gang of butchers have slaughtered about 2,000,000 Arab, Pakistani, Afghani, Serbian and African men, women, children and babies. This magnificent achievement has been accomplished under the pretext of bringing there unfortunates their "human rights", "humanitarian aid" and, best of all - "democracy". Kudos to this unholy cartel.
But wait Dear Reader, there is more!. As I write, these abominations are going great guns (pardon me) in an effort to set an unassailable entry in the Guinness Book of Records - for depravity. Indeed, the valorous RAF pilots have taken bravery to new heights (pardon me) by bombing and killing Libyan children from 30,000 feet!! Way to go guys!! Het Ronnie - what was that you were saying about an Evil Empire?

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Shameonyou 12.05.2011 15:11

I have a question.  Why is it that the Jewish people who were forced to work for the Nazi's, in their most evil doings, are not held accountable but are sympathyzed with, excused, and honored as "victims" with assertions like: 'well, I had no choice, they would have killed my family and thousands of my people, if I didn't do what they told me to do.'  Just the other day I viewed a documentary on TV which showed this very thing.  We all know there are many such survivors presently living in Israel and elsewhere because it's publicised at least annually.  Why is the Zionist Media making such a commotion over one Eastern Orthodox Slavic Christia n?  When there exists lots of evidence indicating Mr. Demjanjuk is not guilty of these allegations. &n bsp;I love Jews and I love non-Jews alike, in fact I married a wonderful Jewish woman whom I love most dearly, and I wholly support the state of Israel.  However, this case reeks of a publicity stunt.  Leave this old man alone, you have terrorized him enough!  For crying out loud, just because he's a Slavic Orthodox Ukranian Christian!  Have you no shame at all?

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