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However, new evidence obtained in 1991 from the files of the former Soviet Union appears to show that another man, Ivan Marcenko, was Ivan the Terrible. The files indicated instead that Demjanjuk was a guard at Sobibor...
...decision was criticized, too. John Demjanjuk may not have been Ivan the Terrible, but reliable evidence demonstrates he was almost certainly a death camp guard at Sobibor. Ivan the Little Less Terrible, so to speak. To some, especially to the many Holocaust survivors and their descendants in Israel, it was like letting Satan Joose on a technicality...
Though Demjanjuk may not be the Ivan of Treblinka, evidence suggests he was a Wachmann elsewhere, notably at the Sobibor death camp in Poland. The Supreme Court could convict him on those charges or order that he be tried anew. However, scant proof exists of what Demjanjuk may have done at the other camps. Such a move would also raise questions of selective punishment, since Israel has never before sought to prosecute ordinary Wachmanner...
That evidence allegedly included statements by Nazi death camp guards who said Ivan the Terrible was another man, Ivan Marcenko. They said Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor camp less than a hundred miles away...
...investigation was prompted last year by new evidence from records of the former Soviet Union indicating that Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor camp and not at Treblinka, where "Ivan" was posted...