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'IVAN THE TERRIBLE' - MORE DOUBTS

by Patrick J Buchanan
New York Post
Saturday, March 17, 1990.

This May, Israel's Supreme Court will decide whether John Demjanjuk,
the Cleveland auto worker convicted of being "Ivan the Terrible," the
butcher of Treblinka who operated the gas chamber, follows Adolph
Eichmann to the gallows.

Oddly, the closer Demjanjuk comes to death, the more certain his
innocence appears. Had we known in 1980, when he was stripped of U.S. citizenship, what we know today, he would have walked out of his
Cleveland courtroom a free man.

Just weeks ago, CBS' "60 Minutes" discovered Marianna Dudek in a
village near Treblinka. Did she remember "Ivan the Terrble"? Indeed
she did: she had slept with him for the gold Ivan ha taken from the
Jews, she said; his real name was Ivan Marchenko.

At the War Crimes Commission in Warsaw, CBS was shown a list of guards
from Treblinka. Marchenko's name was on it; Demjanjuk's was not.

The only hard evidecnne against Demjanjuk remains the I.D. card from
Trawniki training camp, which puts Demjanjuk in a different camp,
Sobibor.

Late in the Jerusalem trial, we learned that the U.S. Justice
Department had withheld evidence, dating to 1979, that another guard, Danilchenko, also recalled Demjanjuk at Sobibor in the same months
Demjanjuk's accusers swear he was at Treblinka.

Now, a U. S. researcher has finished an exhaustive study of the I.D.
card, and three like it from Soviet archives, delivered to Israel by
Armand Hammer. All four are patent forgeries.

Demjanjuk's card, supposedly issued in mid-1942, is validated with the
seal of SS-Brigadefuehrer Odilo Globocnik. But Himmler himself
dismissed Globocnik in March of '42, while Demjanjuk was still in the
Red Army.

Three of the cards, including Demjanjuk's, carry the stamp of the
Waffen SS; but the Waffen SS did not take over Trawniki until 1943, a
year after Demjanjuk supposedly departed.

On guard Juchnowoskij's card, his picture is reversed (buttons are on
the left side of the blouse) while the numbers on the blouse are not
reversed, proof the picture was composed in a lab.

One card bears the signature of a Corporal Teufel; Teufel had been
promoted to sergeant three months before. The same card bears the
signature of Capt. Hoefle; Hoefle had already been promoted to Major
to carry out the deportation of the Warsaw Jews.

Moreover, graphic elements of the seals are grossly misaligned; the SS thunderbolts are wrongly printed in the Roman script; one stamp is
upside down.

Nazi documents have been copied professionally for years; why, then,
such clumsy forgeries? Simple: The KGB forgers had no authentic
Trawniki card to work from.

But what about the eyewitnesses?

Well, among the atrocities for which Demjanjuk must hang is using a
drill to bore into the rectum of prisoner Finkelstein. Only, in his
1945 sworn testimony, Finkelstein did not mention this.

Moreover, S. Reizman, the leader of the Treblinka prisoners, never
mentioned any Ivan in his list of the Ukrainian personnel at
Treblinka, compiled at meetings of survivors in Lodz on Nov 5, 1945.

Another witness at Demjanjuk's trial swore in 1945 and 1947 that he'd
killed Ivan in 1943.

Is this collective perjury? No, something else. Since the war, 1,600
medical papers have been written on "The Psychological and Medical
Effects of the Concentration Camps on Holocaust Survivors."

This so-called "Holocaust Survivor Syndrome" involves "group fantasies
of martyrdom and heroics." Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor
testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered
"unreliable," not to be used in trials.

(See "Shmuel Krakowski & the Yad Vashem Archives", in "Techniques of
Denial" to understand how Holocaust deniers have utilized this
falsehood in their propaganda.)

Finally, the death engine. During the war, the underground government
of the Warsaw Ghetto reported to London that the Jews of Treblinka
were being electrocuted and steamed to death.

(See this Usenet article for a discussion of these reports, which were incorrect. Even though neither charge was confirmed during the
Nuremberg Tribunal, Holocaust deniers continue to point to them as if
they had, in an attempt to discredit the Tribunal.)

The Israeli court, however, concluded that the murder weapon for
850,000 was the diesel engine from a Soviet tank which drove its
exhaust into the death chamber. All died in 20 minutes, Finkenstein
swore in 1945.

The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to
kill anybody. In 1988, 97 kids, trapped 400 feet underground in a
Washington, DC tunnel while two locomotives spewed diesel exhaust into
the car, emerged unharmed after 45 minutes.

(The false assertion that diesel engines could not emit sufficient
carbon monoxide stems from the work of Holocaust denier Friedrich
Berg.)

Demjanjuk's weapon of mass murder cannot kill. The Soviet I.D. cards
are patent forgeries. Polish witnesses say "Ivan" was another man;
Israeli eyewitnesses contradict their own sworn statements, contradict
one another, and are contradicted in turn.

And John Demjanjuk, bewildered and innocent, advances toward
execution.

God help us. We are the Salem judges of our own time.



J Young
jdyoung1@ymail.com

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