Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., December 02,
2009
(1)
Holodomor/Genocide:
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
Opening
of Holodomor Exhibition at the United Nations
AUHR13 (5 speeches),
01Dec2009; courtesy Morgan Williams
Peter
Goldring in Kazakhstan insists Holodomor was genocide
Issue 75 OSCE
Kazakhstan, 01May2009; Peter Goldring [pdf file]
Holodomor
AUR943 (8 items), 28Nov2009; courtesy Morgan Williams
Lemkin,
Petrovsky, Yushchenko, etc. AUHR12 (5 articles),
26Nov2009; courtesy
Morgan Williams
Holodomor
Bill introduced in Quebec Bulletin, 26Nov2009;
Ukrainian Canadian
Congress
Holodomor
Bill introduced in British Columbia Bulletin,
26Nov2009; Ukrainian
Canadian Congress
Holodomor
survivor: 'I saw very terrible things' Hamilton
Spectator, 25Nov2009,
Danielle Wong
Government
of Ukraine honours four Albertans ePoshta,
22Nov2009, Ambassador Ihor
Ostash
Holodomor
awareness in schools ePoshta, 22Nov2009; Bohdan
Kohut
Holodomor
AUR942 (11 items), 22Nov2009; courtesy Morgan Williams
Mace
2003, Slavic Studies Journal, Holodomor Studies Journal
AUHR11 (3
articles), 20Nov2009; courtesy Morgan Williams
Lemkin:
Holodomor 'classic' genocide Kyiv Post, 19Nov2009,
Lubomyr Luciuk
Gareth
Jones, etc. AUHR10 (6 articles), 18Nov2009;
courtesy Morgan Williams
Welsh
hero of Ukraine recognized BBC News,
18Nov2009, Mrs. Pyrkalo
Ukraine's
forgotten famine Manchester Guardian,
18Nov2009, James Marson [Links]
Diary
that helped expose Stalin's murderous famine Fox
News,
13Nov2009; Associated Press
Holodomor
AUR941 (26 items) 15Nov2009; courtesy Morgan Williams
Holodomor
AUHR9 (5 items) 14Nov2009, courtesy Morgan Williams
Gareth
Jones AUHR8 (2 items: M. Brown; R. Satter)
13Nov2009; courtesy M.
Williams
True
extent of Ukraine famine revealed by British journalist's diaries
Times, 13Nov2009; Jack Malvern
Statement
by the President on the Ukrainian Holodomor White
House, 13Nov2009;
Barack Obama
The
New York Times Helped Build the Wall
American Thinker,
09Nov2009; Jack Cashill
(2)
Ukrainophobia:
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrainophobia/ukrainophobia.html
Truthful
History Kyiv Post, 26Nov2009; Editorial
Although
we have archived only one article
this month, there is a great deal of Ukrainophobia expressed in
comments on
Ukrainian-related articles -- especially associated with the John
Demjanjuk
case.
(3)
D&d: http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/furman/furman.html
Oberlander
gets partial win in Second World War deportation case
Kitchener
Waterloo Record, 18Nov2009; Brian Caldwell
(4)
John Demjanjuk: http://www.willzuzak.ca/fc/2001/2001.html
Demjanjuk
accused of sharing Nazi ideology Yahoo
News, 01Dec2009; David Rising
A
'bizarre showpiece' as Germany confronts its past Globe and Mail,
01Dec2009; Naomi Buck [W.Z.]
Yahoo!
Alerts: 10 articles yahoo.com; 30Nov2009; Yahoo!
Alerts
Demjanjuk
tried on Nazi death camp charges Toronto Sun,
30Nov2009; David Rising
[W.Z.]
DIARY
- Today in Germany - November 30, 2009 Reuters,
30Nov2009,
James Pethokoukis
How
a simple internet search led to Demjanjuk indictment
Haaretz,
29Nov2009; Assaf Uni [W.Z.]
Kurt
Schrimm finds new lead in Brazilian archive
Bloomberg, 27Nov2009;
Patrick Donahue, Brian Parkin [W.Z.]
Demjanjuk
saga enters final round Kyiv Post,
26Nov2009; Andriy
Semotiuk [Comments]
John
Demjanuk Trial 2009 To Angela
Merkel, 25Nov2009; William
Zuzak
Re:
Video statement of Askold Lozinsky on Demjanjuk
ePoshta, 22Nov2009;
George Primak
Sorry,
Poland Maclean's Magazine, 20Nov2009; Paul Wells [Comment]
Demjanjuk
fights for life American Free Press, 14Nov2009; Jim
Traficant
'The
last great Nazi trial' Maclean's Magazine,
10Nov2009; K. Engelhart
[W.Z.]
Traficant
lashes out at power of Israel American Free Press,
05Nov2009;
Michael Collins Piper
Uli
Busch on the Demjanjuk situation Ukr. Graduates of
Detroit/Windsor,
01Nov2009; Dr. Uli Busch
John
Demjanjuk Trial 2009 To Angela Merkel, Nov. 25, 2009
Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2009.12.02
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Letter to Angela Merkel | 25Nov2009 | Will Zuzak
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/wllzzk/zuzak20091125Merkel.html
John Demjanjuk Trial 2009
The Honourable Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Bundeskanzleramt
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1
10557 Berlin, Germany
+49 (0)180 272 00 00
via Email:
[email protected]
http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/De/Service/Kontakt/kontakt.html
Date:
25 November 2009
Dear Chancellor Merkel:
This open letter to you and to the German people has been prompted by
the
rather plaintive plea of the Human Rights Committee of the Ukrainian
World
Congress (UWC) asking you to ensure that the prosecution of John
Demjanjuk in a
German court “not turn into a show trial intended to spill blame for
the
Holocaust on non-Germans, and we appeal to you to make a public
statement to
this effect.”
This letter dated 15 July 2009 is archived at the UWC website at
http://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/committees/KLHP/index.html
The history
of the John Demjanjuk case is replete with geopolitical intrigue,
judicial
misconduct, disinformation and outright deceit. There is a direct
connection to
the KGB and the on-going Soviet efforts to discredit the Ukrainian
Diaspora --
its promotion of Ukrainian independence, its steadfast anti-Communism
and the
eyewitness accounts of the genocidal policies of the Soviet regime.
Criminality of the OSI
In 1974 KGB operative and editor of the communistic New York-based Ukrainian
Daily News, Michael Hanusiak travelled to Moscow and was
given a list of
Ukrainian names targeted by the KGB (including Demjanjuk), which he
sent to the
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in 1975. The Holtzman
Amendment
facilitated the creation of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI),
which
has operated as a rogue element within the U.S. Department of Justice
from its
very inception. By January 1980, while the rest of America was
boycotting the
Moscow Winter Olympics because of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan,
Allan
Ryan and Walter Rockler of the OSI were in Moscow meeting with
Aleksandr
Rekunkov and Roman Rudenko -- the chief Soviet prosecutor at the
infamous
Nurnberg War Crimes trials, as well as the Soviet show trials of the
1930s.
Contrary to the official policy of the United States towards the Soviet
Union
at that time, this unfortunate meeting facilitated the use of
Soviet-supplied
evidence in future OSI prosecutions and placed American justice at the
mercy of
KGB manipulation. That the OGPU/NKVD/KGB utilized torture to obtain
false
confessions from targeted individuals is a historical fact. From the
time of
Lenin through the Holodomor, the Great Terror, World War Two, the
Ukrainian
Partisan Army Insurgency and even the Dissident era from the 1960’s
intimidation, threats and torture were utilized by the repressive
organs of the
Soviet Union. Even in the 1990’s, when naive Canadian judges travelled
to
Ukraine to interview eyewitnesses under the direction of and
preparation by
former-KGB personnel, several of these witnesses later recanted their
testimony
after recounting their “preparation” and expressed surprise and disgust
that
Canadian authorities would side with their tormentors.
By the time that John Demjanjuk was exonerated of the charges against
him by
the Israeli Supreme Court on 29 July 1993, it had become obvious that:
It
is small wonder that the
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently ruled that the OSI was
guilty of
prosecutorial misconduct constituting fraud on the court in obtaining
the 1981
denaturalization of Mr. Demjanjuk and his 1986 extradition to Israel.
Obviously, any pronouncements and conclusions from these tainted
proceedings
cannot be utilized by the German courts and any evidence supplied by
the OSI
must be treated as suspect. The German courts must not legitimize the criminality
of the OSI.
Trawniki ID 1393 card
Once again , it was the KGB via Michael Hanusiak in 1975 that
publicized the
Trawniki ID card, which purportedly indicates that Mr. Demjanjuk was
sent from
Trawniki to Sobibor on 27 March 1943. Photographs of the card, the
picture thereon
and the name Ivan Demjanjuk spread like wildfire throughout the Jewish
community. By the fall of 1976 Mariam Radiwker had induced several
survivors to
identify Mr. Demjanjuk to have been in Treblinka; but no one identified
him as
being in Sobibor.
The 1981 denaturalization trial started with only photostatic copies of
the
card available. Unexpectedly, the Soviets allowed experts for the
prosecution
and defense to examine it at their Embassy and made it available to
Judge
Battisti for one morning session. For the Jerusalem trial, the card was
allegedly delivered by Armand Hammer and three other similar cards
appeared
mysteriously mid-trial. No expert has ever authenticated the Demjanjuk
signature (in green, iron-free ink). Julius Grant, expert
witness for the
defense at the Jerusalem trial, categorically stated that the signature
was
forged.
A large number of people have examined copies of these cards and have
detected
an enormous number of discrepancies,
which indicate that the card is fraudulent -- there is no date and DIN
number,
the format is wrong, the stamps are wrong, obsolete type is used, some
letters
are hand-made, the German grammar and spelling is atrocious. Various
other
similar cards have appeared that differ from the original. Even the
prosecution
in the second 2001 Demjanjuk denaturalization trial admitted that there
were at
least two sets of these cards.
One of the main problems with these cards is that there is no chain of
custody.
No one seems to know where they came from, where they were, what was
done to
them and by whom and when. During World War Two there were countless
false and
forged documents created by various spy agencies, by criminal
organizations, by
individuals trying to survive. This is exemplified by the famous Red
Orchestra
led by Leopold Trepper, which infiltrated German organizations to
provide
information to Soviet intelligence on the German war effort. The Jewish
underground operatives were masters at providing false documents for
their
members.
The logical procedure to unravel the origin and validity or
non-validity of
these documents would be for the German courts to make coloured,
high-resolution digital photographs of them, post them on a government
web site
and invite independent experts to examine them. Doubtless, a large
number of
discrepancies would be detected and many of them resolved.
Legal standing for affected groups
The German news media has reported that 35 “survivors” have obtained “standing”
and have arranged for lawyers to represent them and assist the
prosecution at
the trial scheduled to commence on 30 November 2009. There are several
Ukrainian organizations that should also have standing in the court.
This would include the Ukrainian World Congress, which must ensure that
past
and present Soviet/Russian efforts directed at the suppression of
Ukrainian
independence and discrediting the Ukrainian Diaspora as anti-semitic
nationalists and Nazi collaborators are exposed. The Ukrainophobia
expressed in
previous Demjanjuk trials must not be repeated in German courts.
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) also has a vested interest at
being
represented at the Munich trial. The initial 1981 Demjanjuk
denaturalization
trial spilled over into Canada with wild claims of thousands of “Nazi
war
criminals” living in Canada, the establishment of the Deschenes
Commission, passage of retroactive legislation to allow
prosecution of
alleged war criminals in criminal courts, creation of Canada’s War
Crimes Unit,
failure to convict Imre Finta, abandonment of the criminal process and
its
replacement with the civil denaturalization
and
deportation process exactly as with John Demjanjuk in the
United States.
All these developments relate to the upcoming trial in Munich.
[W. Z.
See also ../Geocities/index.html and ../Geocities/letters/mclellan003.html ]
In addition, many other countries in Eastern Europe would be
well-advised to
seek standing at the Munich trial. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians
and
other nationalities were also targeted by the KGB-sponsored “Nazi
collaborator”
campaign. As with Ukraine, the present Putin/Medvedev regime in Moscow
continues to challenge the legitimacy of these countries and refuses to
acknowledge the Stalinist crimes inflicted upon their citizens.
It would be in the interests of German and world society, if the German
government would encourage and assist (both administratively and
financially)
these various organizations and countries to obtain legal standing at
the
Munich trial. German taxpayers have paid billions of Deutschmarks to
Holocaust
survivors and toward prosecution of Nazis within Germany. This has
resulted in
a distorted view of the realities of World War Two -- the Jewish
perspective is
reinforced, while the perspective of others is downplayed or
suppressed. One
would hope that all aspects of crimes during WW2 could be examined.
German victimhood
Throughout my life here in Canada, I have been constantly amazed at how
Germans
have been vilified as a result of WW1 and WW2 and how ethnic Germans
have
meekly submitted to such categorization. I suspect that the psyche of
Germans
-- both in Germany and the Diaspora -- has been badly scarred. It seems
that
Germans are not even allowed to pray for the souls of their dead.
The reality is that throughout the twentieth century Germans were as
much
victims as victimizers. But does the world recognize this? Do Germans
mourn the
victims of the firebombing of Dresden and Hamburg? Or the massacre of
surrendering German soldiers in Munich by the Americans? Or the POW
death pits
organized by General Eisenhower? Or the genocidal ethnic cleansing of
Germans
from the Danzig/Gdansk area? Or the rape of some two million German
women by
the oncoming Red Army as it invaded Germany? Or the torture of German
personnel
to encourage their confessions for the Nurnberg War Crimes Trials? Have
German
courts examined these atrocities? Has anyone been charged?
Holodomor
As a Canadian of Ukrainian origin, I am particularly concerned that
Germany has
declined to recognize the Holodomor
-- the 1932-33 famine orchestrated by Stalin, which claimed the lives
of some 7
to 10 million Ukrainians -- as genocide. Are Germans aware that over
one
million inhabitants in the Volga German Republic and in German
settlements in
Southern Russia and Southern Ukraine were decimated? Was this not
deliberate
genocide? There were a large number of articles in the German
newspapers at
that time. Large numbers of heart-rending letters from starving Germans
were
received. Ewald
Ammende even wrote a book on the subject. Will Germans not
even pray for
the souls of their own kinsmen?
World Geopolitics
The John Demjanjuk case, stretching for almost 35 years now, is the
most
politicized case in the history of mankind. He has become a pawn in the
intrigues of the power elites in the world today. He is the litmus test
to
indicate who holds the real power.
Israel uses this case as a tool to promote and publicize the Holocaust
and to
combat “Holocaust revisionists”; to elicit sympathy and money
from
individuals and governments; to influence and control the
judicial
systems within various countries; and to prevent criticism of
Israel’s
ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
The justice system of the United States as represented by the OSI has a
vested
interest to legitimize its criminal handling of the Demjanjuk case.
The Russian Federation will continue to justify its genocidal
anti-Ukrainian
policies of the past with the hopes of re-incorporating Ukraine within
its
empire, while at the same time dangling the image of endless gas
supplies to
Germany. Once again, as at the time of the Holodomor, the prospect of
lucrative
business dealings with Russia will likely overcome any German qualms
about
human rights and human lives.
And once again, Germany appears willing to sell its soul to appease the
United
States/Israel on one side and the Russian Federation on the other side.
Mr.
Demjanjuk and Ukraine are to be the sacrificial lambs.
To all the people, who have been involved in the persecution of Mr.
Demjanjuk,
I would like to remind them of the following quotation in the past,
present and
future tenses: “As you do unto John Demjanjuk, so shall it be done unto
you.”
Respectfully yours
William
Zuzak, Ph.D., P.Eng. (retired)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
This
letter shall be archived at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/wllzzk/zuzak20091125Merkel.html