Alleged Nazi Camp Guard Makes Last Appeal

Ohio Man Accused Of Being Guard At Treblinka Death Camp Fights Deportation

(AP)  Three decades after the federal government began trying to deport a former autoworker accused of helping murder Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps, his lawyer says his last fight may be at hand.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral arguments for Thursday on John Demjanjuk's challenge of a final removal order by an immigration judge.

Demjanjuk, now 87, has steadfastly maintained that he was a Nazi prisoner himself, forced to work as a guard, and that he hurt no one.

The Justice Department first brought charges seeking to revoke Demjanjuk's citizenship - for allegedly falsifying information on his applications when entering the U.S. in 1952 and to become a citizen in 1958 - and to deport him in 1977.

Demjanjuk's U.S. citizenship was revoked in 1981, restored in 1998 and revoked again in 2002. The government initially claimed he was the notoriously sadistic guard at the Treblinka camp known as "Ivan the Terrible."

He was extradited to Israel in 1986 and was under a death sentence, until Israel's Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that he was not the same man as the guard known as Ivan.

Demjanjuk returned home and his U.S. citizenship was restored. The current deportation case is based on evidence uncovered by the Justice Department alleging he was a different guard. That evidence led courts to again strip Demjanjuk of his citizenship - on the basis of the original falsified information charge.

In the current case, Demjanjuk's attorney, John Broadley, and the government argue over whether a former chief immigration judge, Michael Creppy, had authority to rule in December 2005 that Demjanjuk could be deported back to his native Ukraine - or Germany or Poland.

Broadley contends that Creppy was an administrator who should have appointed an immigration judge to hear the case, rather than handle it himself. He wants the deportation order tossed out and a new hearing held.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has refused to set aside Creppy's ruling, and Broadley wants the 6th Circuit to review that denial.

[sgtrds]

That''''s kind of what I thought, Sarge. I can''''t imagine the Jews letting him leave Israel if they though he had any connection to killing Jews. The feds are just probably imbarrased and can''''t let it go.

Posted by kansas1946 at 06:23 PM : Nov 29, 2007

Yeppers. My wife is a Jew who lost some aunts and uncles in Dachau and even she says that there is no way Israel would have let him go if they had anything at all to mail him on and they do love nailing Nazis, so he must not be the one.

[kansas1946]

If the Israelis have determined he''''s not the guy (and they''''re the least likely to make a mistake about a Nazi war criminal) then what''''s the problem? Let him stay.


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Posted by SgtRDS at 10:02 AM : Nov 29, 2007
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That''s kind of what I thought, Sarge. I can''t imagine the Jews letting him leave Israel if they though he had any connection to killing Jews. The feds are just probably imbarrased and can''t let it go.

[jankebenz]

The guy is 87 now and ww2 was 63 years ago, a bit late to prosecute now. leave him be

[gunownerdan]

"At that time, a gun and a million dollars, the gun was worth more than a million dollars, because you could, at least, you could defend yourself with something."
- Frank Bleichman, Polish Jew who resisted the Nazis during WWII

"There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the people had not been ''brainwashed'' about gun ownership and they had been well armed. Hitler''s thugs and goons were not very brave when confronted by a gun. Gun haters always want to forget the WarsawGhetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half starved group of Jews took up 10 handguns and made ***** out of the Nazi''s."
- Theodore Haas, former prisoner of the infamous Dachau prisoner concentration camp

"Jews are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.
Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew%u2019s possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation. Whoever willfully or negligently violates the provisions...will be punished with imprisonment and a fine."
-- NAZI WEAPONS LAW OF 1938 (Regulations Against Jews%u2019 Possession of Weapons, 11 November 1938, German Minister of the Interior
Frick)
http://www.jpfo.org/NaziLawGerman.htm

[fiteit1]

I believe Bush has commited war crimes and everyone that takes his orders are no different than what this guy is being accused of.

A clear example of gunownerdan''s statement is what just happen in Pakistan with Pervez Musharraf, a military ruler that will exile his opponents, crush true democracy with military force and use state of emergency to intimidate the people of his country.

[gunownerdan]

"Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."
-- Congressman Ron Paul, June 27, 2006

[sgtrds]

If the Israelis have determined he''s not the guy (and they''re the least likely to make a mistake about a Nazi war criminal) then what''s the problem? Let him stay.