dose.ca | 08Apr2009 | AFP
http://www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=1478081

Suspected Nazi can stay in U.S. for now: Officials

[W.Z. Below we reproduce 3 of the myriad of "hits" that an Internet search of the above title yields. The news media pimping for the Holocaust Industry has had a field day since Judge Wayne Iskra first stayed the deportation order of Mr. Demjanjuk on Friday 03Apr2009 and reversed his own decision on Monday 06Apr2009. It has provided these media pimps with an opportunity to dredge up the same old accusations from the second denaturalization trial from 29May-07Jun2001; from the 29Jul1993 decision of the Supreme Court of Israel to overturn the guilty verdict of the Jerusalem lower court in April 1988; and from the original denaturalization trial in Cleveland from 10Feb-11Mar1981. Once again, they show copies of the Trawniki ID card as if it were valid. They mix up dates, locations and personalities into a huge stew which provides no information, but plenty of emotional verbiage.

Of course, they never refer to the criminality of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in perpetrating "fraud on the court" in the intial denaturalization trial in 1981 and his extradition to Israel in 1986. They simply ignore the fact that no handwriting expert has ever authenticated the signature on the Trawniki ID card as being that of Mr. Demjanjuk and the overwhelming evidence that this card is illegitimate. The reader is encouraged to read my "CRITIQUE of Wiseman's Report" dated 12Oct1993 to begin to understand the evil machinations of the OSI.]

CHICAGO - Suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can remain in the United States while an immigration court considers his appeal against extradition to Germany, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

"It is a subject for the courts at this point," said Pat Reilly, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement.

"When he is removable -- when he no longer has legal recourse -- we will remove him."

Demjanjuk, who changed his name from Ivan to John after emigrating to the United States in 1952 and who some believe is the brutal Nazi death camp guard nicknamed "Ivan the Terrible."
[W.Z. This "Ivan the Terrible" label was concocted for the Treblinka accusations, not Sobibor!]

He is wanted in Germany on charges of assisting in the murders of thousands of Jews at Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

He was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 2008 and last month American officials began the process of extraditing the now-stateless Demjanjuk to Germany to stand trial for crimes allegedly committed more than 60 years ago.
[W.Z. The second denaturalization trial took place 29May-07Jun2001 and Judge Paul Matia ordered Mr. Demjanjuk to be stripped of his citizenship on 21Feb2002.]

Last week, his lawyer won him a stay of deportation while immigration officials debated whether or not to reopen the Ukrainian-born former auto worker's "removal" case.

John Broadley had argued that the octogenarian was in poor health, and that jailing and trying him in Germany would cause him pain amounting to torture.

But the brief stay was overturned Monday by immigration judge Wayne Iskra, who reasoned that jurisdiction over the motion to bar Demjanjuk's deportation did not lie with the immigration court but with the board of appeals.

Broadley filed an emergency motion with the board of appeals to stay the deportation on Tuesday, hours before the temporary stay was set to expire.

"We'll file a response and see what happens from there," Laura Sweeney, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice, told AFP.

German prosecutors issued a warrant last month for Demjanjuk's arrest, accusing him of complicity in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at Sobibor death camp, where he served between March and September 1943.

Around a quarter of a million Jews died at Sobibor from spring 1942 until October 1943, in which hundreds of prisoners managed to escape.

U.S. investigators have brought together witnesses who described how Demjanjuk was seen at Sobibor, kicking Jews or hitting them with his rifle butt to herd them out of railway wagons and into the gas chambers more quickly.
[W.Z. For the 1981 denaturalization trial, the Jerusalem Show Trial in 1987-1988 and up to the exoneration of Mr. Demjanjuk by the Israeli Supreme Court on 29Jul1993, neither the OSI nor the Israeli Mossad could find any "survivors" from Sobibor to identify Mr. Demjanjuk. Twenty nine years later, does the OSI claim to have conjured up "eyewitnesses"?]

The Office for Special Investigations (OSI) in the United States has described Sobibor "as close an approximation of Hell as has ever been created on this planet."
[W.Z. But this is what they said about Treblinka!]

Former wartime inmates of Nazi camps in occupied Poland in 1977 identified Demjanjuk as brutal Ukrainian prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" during a U.S. Justice Department investigation.
[W.Z. Once again, this refers to Treblinka, and not Sobibor.]

Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by a court in Israel, but the penalty was overturned five years later by Israel's Supreme Court after statements from other former guards identified another man as the sadistic "Ivan."
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france24.com | 09Apr2009 | Mira Oberman
http://www.france24.com/en/20090409-suspected-nazi-can-stay-us-now-officials

Suspected Nazi can stay in US for now: officials

Suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can remain in the United States while an immigration court considers his latest appeal against extradition to Germany, US officials said.

"It is a subject for the courts at this point," said Pat Reilly, a spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"When he is removable -- when he no longer has legal recourse -- we will remove him."

Demjanjuk, who changed his name from Ivan to John after emigrating to the United States in 1952, is wanted in Germany on charges of assisting in the murders of thousands of Jews at Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

He was stripped of his US citizenship in 2008 and last month, US officials began the process of extraditing the now-stateless Demjanjuk to Germany to stand trial for crimes allegedly committed more than 60 years ago.

His lawyer won him a brief stay of deportation last week while immigration officials debated whether to reopen the Ukrainian-born former autoworker's "removal" case.

That stay expired Wednesday, but officials said they will await the outcome of additional motions filed Tuesday before they take action.

"We'll file a response and see what happens from there," US Department of Justice spokeswoman Laura Sweeney told AFP.

Demjanjuk's lawyer has argued that the octogenarian is in poor health, and that jailing and trying him in Germany would cause him pain amounting to torture.

But the US Office of Special Investigations maintained that all of Demjanjuk's requests must be rejected.

His submissions, the office said, are "based on speculation, erroneous assumptions ... and, fundamentally, on a novel and frivolous claim that legitimate German proceedings that may be commenced against him would be designed to cause him suffering and would subject him to severe mental and physical anguish."

Demjanjuk's family has also filed motions in Germany requesting that the government reconsider its extradition request.

"We're trying to stop what we believe to be an inhumane action," Demjanjuk's son John Jr told AFP.

"There is zero chance that my dad will face trial in Germany," said the younger Demjanjuk, who expects a decision on the extradition appeal "at any time.

"There remains a chance that he will be deported to Germany. But if he is deported to Germany, he will live out his remaining days in a German hospital, not in a court of law."

German prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Demjanjuk last month, accusing him of complicity in murdering at least 29,000 Jews at Sobibor death camp, where he allegedly served between March and September 1943.

Former wartime inmates of Nazi camps in occupied Poland in 1977 identified Demjanjuk as the brutal Ukrainian prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" during a US Justice Department investigation.

Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by a court in Israel, but the penalty was overturned five years later by Israel's Supreme Court after statements from other former guards identified another man as the sadistic "Ivan."

Demjanjuk's son said the current case against his father is based on the same flawed and false evidence that led to his acquittal in Israel.

"They had the wrong guy in Israel and they're going to get the wrong guy in Germany," he said in a telephone interview.

"Nobody to this day, nobody ever will be able to provide evidence that he was involved in the killing of one person."

He handed the court a video of Demjanjuk being examined by a physician hired by immigration officials to determine if he was fit to travel.

In the video, Demjanjuk speaks of his fears of how he will cope in Germany after the doctor helps him back into bed.

"What happens to me over there? You don't care," he said, according to a transcript supplied by his son.

"Because who goes behind me (when) I need help? I have here my family to help me. Who help me over there, huh? Just think, just think. This is the torture. That's the torture."
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google.com | 08Apr2009 | AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-KzQJSVfy3tcmOb3qz2JuDKva_A

Suspected Nazi can stay in US for now: officials

CHICAGO (AFP) — Suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk can remain in the United States while an immigration court considers his latest appeal against extradition to Germany, US officials said.

"It is a subject for the courts at this point," said Pat Reilly, a spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"When he is removable -- when he no longer has legal recourse -- we will remove him."

Demjanjuk, who changed his name from Ivan to John after emigrating to the United States in 1952, is wanted in Germany on charges of assisting in the murders of thousands of Jews at Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

He was stripped of his US citizenship in 2008 and last month, US officials began the process of extraditing the now-stateless Demjanjuk to Germany to stand trial for crimes allegedly committed more than 60 years ago.

His lawyer won him a brief stay of deportation last week while immigration officials debated whether to reopen the Ukrainian-born former autoworker's "removal" case.

That stay expired Wednesday, but officials said they will await the outcome of additional motions filed Tuesday before they take action.

"We'll file a response and see what happens from there," US Department of Justice spokeswoman Laura Sweeney told AFP.

Demjanjuk's lawyer has argued that the octogenarian is in poor health, and that jailing and trying him in Germany would cause him pain amounting to torture.

But the US Office of Special Investigations maintained that all of Demjanjuk's requests must be rejected.

His submissions, the office said, are "based on speculation, erroneous assumptions ... and, fundamentally, on a novel and frivolous claim that legitimate German proceedings that may be commenced against him would be designed to cause him suffering and would subject him to severe mental and physical anguish."

Demjanjuk's family has also filed motions in Germany requesting that the government reconsider its extradition request.

"We're trying to stop what we believe to be an inhumane action," Demjanjuk's son John Jr told AFP.

"There is zero chance that my dad will face trial in Germany," said the younger Demjanjuk, who expects a decision on the extradition appeal "at any time.

"There remains a chance that he will be deported to Germany. But if he is deported to Germany, he will live out his remaining days in a German hospital, not in a court of law."

German prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Demjanjuk last month, accusing him of complicity in murdering at least 29,000 Jews at Sobibor death camp, where he allegedly served between March and September 1943.

Former wartime inmates of Nazi camps in occupied Poland in 1977 identified Demjanjuk as the brutal Ukrainian prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" during a US Justice Department investigation.

Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by a court in Israel, but the penalty was overturned five years later by Israel's Supreme Court after statements from other former guards identified another man as the sadistic "Ivan."

Demjanjuk's son said the current case against his father is based on the same flawed and false evidence that led to his acquittal in Israel.

"They had the wrong guy in Israel and they're going to get the wrong guy in Germany," he said in a telephone interview.

"Nobody to this day, nobody ever will be able to provide evidence that he was involved in the killing of one person."

He handed the court a video of Demjanjuk being examined by a physician hired by immigration officials to determine if he was fit to travel.

In the video, Demjanjuk speaks of his fears of how he will cope in Germany after the doctor helps him back into bed.

"What happens to me over there? You don't care," he said, according to a transcript supplied by his son.

"Because who goes behind me (when) I need help? I have here my family to help me. Who help me over there, huh? Just think, just think. This is the torture. That's the torture."