A Ukrainian soldier who worked as a concentration camp guard for the Nazis during World War II escaped sanctions and moved to the United States in 1952. In 1986, he was recognized by Israeli agents and tried, but was returned to the United States due to insufficient evidence.
He was eventually convicted in 2012 at the age of 91, but he died without admitting it. However, the unexpected appearance of a group of photographs of Nazi officials confirmed that this dishonest Ukrainian soldier was indeed a war criminal who had killed 28,000 Jews...
John Demjanjuk
Between 1941 and 1943, the Nazis built three concentration camps in eastern Poland, Namely Sobibor, Treblinka, and Belzec, which together killed about 1.7 million Jews. Because the Nazis destroyed almost all of the evidence of the camp before retreating, no photographs of the Sobiburg camp were found after World War II, leaving room for sophistry among many Nazi remnants.
In 2015, the grandson of former SS deputy commander Johann Niemann (who was killed by a Jewish prisoner in October 1943) found conscience and handed over a large number of photographs to German authorities. After that, people had a general understanding of what happened in those three concentration camps. And these photos inadvertently helped the Israelis identify a Nazi war criminal who had been on the run for decades, John Demjanjuk.
Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who served as a Nazi soldier during World War II, escaped sanctions after World War II, reunited with his wife and daughter in 1952, and managed to move to the United States.
After arriving in the United States, Demjanjuk became an auto mechanic, and after 30 years, he thought that the world had forgotten his true identity, but in 1986, a group of Israeli agents found him and notified the U.S. government, demanding that Demjanjuk be brought back to Israel for trial.
It turned out that Demjanjuk was regarded as the famous Nazi executioner "Terror Ivan". This "horror Ivan" was notorious for the brutal killing of Jews at the Treblinka concentration camp.
In 1988, things took a turn for the worse, and another Ukrainian appeared, who was more like "Ivan the Terror", so Demjanjuk was sent back to the United States.
In the United States, Demjanjuk remained unable to exonerate himself, and the judge insisted that he be clear about what he had done. The Ukrainian learned cleverly this time, and instead of saying that he was innocent, he changed his tactics, saying that his identity was forged by the Nazis and the Soviets, that he was not a guard at the Sobiburg concentration camp, but a Nazi prisoner of war, who was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp in Austria in 1944 and later rescued and joined the Soviet army.
In 2002, a judge tested the authenticity of Demjanjuk's Nazi identity card and judged that he was not valid for saying that the certificate was forged, and that he was a guard at the Sobiburg concentration camp and sent him to Germany for trial.
According to German prosecutors, Demjanjuk killed about 28,000 Jews while serving as a guard at sobiburg. In a court in Munich, he was sentenced to five years in prison, germany's last major war crimes trial.
Demjanjuk died in 2012 at the age of 91, and before his death he was still appealing, declaring his innocence. However, photos provided by Niemann's grandson in 2015 show dem Janjuk as a shameful liar! He was in Sobibourg, and in 361 photographs of Sobibourg, Demjanjuk appeared twice, and the man in the photo was the same as the one on Demjanjuk's Nazi identity card.
German historians say the photos contradict Demjanjuk's denial that he ever served as an executioner in the camp massacre. This shameful man wanted to deceive the world before he died.
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