Investigator: Demjanjuk's story exhibits inconsistencies
Investigator disputes statements about where alleged Nazi war criminal was after capture by Germans.
By The Associated Press Tags: Germany Jewish World Israel newsA top German investigator testified Tuesday that there are inconsistencies in John Demjanjuk's story about where he spent the remainder of World War II after being captured by the Germans.
Thomas Walther, who led the investigation that prompted Germany to prosecute Demjanjuk on 27,900 counts of accessory to murder, disputed some of the 89-year-old's statements about where he was after his 1942 capture.
Demjanjuk, a Red Army draftee from Ukraine, is accused of agreeing to serve the Nazis as a guard at the Sobibor death camp after his capture.
Demjanjuk maintains he never served in any death camp and is the victim of mistaken identity.
Walther testified, however, that in investigations against the retired Ohio autoworker in Israel and the United States, Demjanjuk gave conflicting testimony about his whereabouts, with some of it being historically impossible.
He testified, for example, that Demjanjuk once claimed to have served with the Ukrainian Liberation Army, formed by the Germans to fight the Soviets, in Graz, Austria, in 1943.
This army at that time was at no point in Graz, Walther, who has now retired from the special German prosecutors' office responsible for investigating Nazi-era crimes, told the Munich state court.
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the ukranian american is being tried in a german court for german crimes after israel found him not guilty.the whole thing is preposterous.
Please post your inane comments in a German newspaper since he is being tried in a German court by German law. However, since you did post your drivel here, chew on this: Germany will judge him in this world and he will be judged in the next world by the proper authority there. Deal?
Demjanjuk was a Red Army P.O.W. who agreed to serve the Germans. Red Army P.O.W.'s who DIDN'T agree to serve the Germans had about a 10% survival rate. I wonder how many of those so piously hounding him would accept those odds? For Demjanjuk, the alternative to serving the Germans literally was death. This prosecution made sense when there was reason to believe Demjanjuk was 'Ivan the Terrible.' Now that he's just some schmoo who has to lie about what he did to survive World War Two, it's time to let it go.
It's hard to remember what you were doing all those years ago...
He's 89 for goodness sake. Let God take him and judge him... The guy probably doesn't even remember himself where he was last week or where he put his dentures.