Nazi Trial begins in Munich

[Damocles]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8385577.stm

John Demjanjuk was brought into the afternoon session of his trial on a stretcher

John Demjanjuk, accused of helping to murder nearly 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp, has gone on trial in the German city of Munich.

Mr Demjanjuk, who is 89 and was deported from the US in May, entered the courtroom in a wheelchair. His eyes were closed but he seemed conscious.

He denies being a camp guard at Sobibor, in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The trial is expected to last until May and, if found guilty, Mr Demjanjuk could be sentenced to 15 years in jail.

The trial's first session was delayed for over an hour, as large numbers of people tried to gain access.

'Hollywood, not Sobibor'

Organisers were overwhelmed by the crowds of people trying to get in, including journalists and relatives of Holocaust survivors.

More at link...

 

[Thorn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8385577.stm

John Demjanjuk was brought into the afternoon session of his trial on a stretcher

John Demjanjuk, accused of helping to murder nearly 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp, has gone on trial in the German city of Munich.

Mr Demjanjuk, who is 89 and was deported from the US in May, entered the courtroom in a wheelchair. His eyes were closed but he seemed conscious.

He denies being a camp guard at Sobibor, in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The trial is expected to last until May and, if found guilty, Mr Demjanjuk could be sentenced to 15 years in jail.

The trial's first session was delayed for over an hour, as large numbers of people tried to gain access.

'Hollywood, not Sobibor'

Organisers were overwhelmed by the crowds of people trying to get in, including journalists and relatives of Holocaust survivors.

More at link...

There would be so few people left alive who could identify him and provide first-person testimony; presumably there's sufficient evidence to proceed. He's 89 and in poor health -- he may not last even through the trial. Even so, he's had a full life that (assuming guilt) he denied to nearly twenty-eight thousand other people. Though fifteen years under other circumstances for a similar crime is ridiculously low, for this person it would be a life sentence, to end his life in ignominy.

 

[Norman Paperman]

How many times are they going to put this guy on trial? This will be, I believe, the third time so far.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I am assuming German courts do not recognize double jeopardy? He was already acquitted in Israel more than a decade ago.