“When are the OSI going to go after the Jewish trustees of theconcentration camps with the same gusto that they go after Slavicguards. The trustees helped murder their own people!”
by Patrick J. Buchanan
04/14/2009 OnGood Friday, John Demjanjuk, 89 and gravely ill, was ordered deportedto Germany to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews– at Sobibor camp in Poland.
Sound familiar? It should. It isa re-enactment of the 1986 extradition of John Demjanjuk to Israel tobe tried for the murder of 870,000 Jews — at Treblinka camp inPoland.
How many men in the history of this country have been so relentlessly pursued and remorselessly persecuted?
The ordeal of this American Dreyfus began 30 years ago.
In 1979, the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) at Justice,goaded and guided by Yuri Andropov’s KGB, was persuaded that Demjanjukwas “Ivan the Terrible,” a huge, brutal, sadistic guard at Treblinka,who bashed in babies’ heads and slashed off women’s breasts, as hedrove hundreds of thousands of Jews into the gas chambers.
Demjanjuk’s defense was simple: I was never at Treblinka.
Yet,a dozen survivors, shown a photo spread, identified him as the beast ofTreblinka. In 1986, OSI had him extradited to Israel. In 1988, he wasconvicted and sentenced to death. The greatest Holocaust monster sinceMengele was to be hanged.
His family, friends and lawyers didnot give up. They scoured Europe and, in the last days of the SovietUnion, struck pay dirt. In Moscow’s files on Treblinka they discovereda photo of the real “Ivan,” a far bigger, more mature man than the23-year-old Demjanjuk in 1943.
Ivan Marchenko was positively identified as Ivan the Terrible.