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...hunt for a monster can warp the pursuers. The wanted man was one of the most loathsome creatures of modern times: "Ivan the Terrible," who hacked at his naked victims with a sword as he herded them by the thousands into the gas chambers he operated at the Nazi death camp Treblinka. American and Israeli officials were certain they had found him in John, formerly Ivan, Demjanjuk, a retired suburban Cleveland autoworker of Ukrainian descent. He was extradited to Israel in 1986, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and condemned to hang after a dramatic trial that transfixed...
...will go free; Israelis, in fact, are steeling themselves for the prospect that what may be the last major Nazi war trial will end in failure. New evidence supporting Demjanjuk's contention that he was the victim of mistaken identity has convinced many observers that while he may be Ivan the Not Very Nice, accountable for lesser crimes, Demjanjuk will be cleared of the atrocities of Treblinka's notorious Ivan...
Doubts about the case intensified last month when a U.S. federal judge, appointed to investigate where Justice Department officials had mishandled their prosecution of Demjanjuk concluded that there was "substantial doubt" he was Ivan the Terrible. Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. criticized government lawyers for being insufficiently inquisitive about the facts of the case but said their failings fell short of misconduct. In his report to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Wiseman recommended that the extradition be upheld because even if Demjanjuk was not at Treblinka, evidence indicated he was an agent of the SS nonetheless...
...time of Demjanjuk's denaturalization, extradition and conviction, they did not have the full body of evidence available today: statements made to Soviet authorities by 32 former guards and five forced laborers at Treblinka, all hailing from what was then the Soviet Union. They said a man named Ivan Marchenko was the Ivan of Treblinka. Marchenko, like Demjanjuk a native Ukrainian, was last seen in Yugoslavia in 1944. The statements of these 37, most of whom were executed by the Soviets as Nazi collaborators, were not obtained by Israeli courts until 1991. But as early as 1978, U.S. officials...
...extradition. "Of course the survivors knew who he was supposed to be," says Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. "They'd seen him testify in America." Israel's Supreme Court now knows what the trial court did not: that there were two men, Ivan Demjanjuk and Ivan Marchenko. Judging by photos of the two as young men, they shared a similar round face, protruding ears, almond-shaped eyes and thin lips...