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Evidence Gathering Assignment

1. Remind yourself of you assigned stance on this debate:

Continue pursuing Holocaust war criminals

Stop pursuing Holocaust war criminals

2. Research and collect one key piece of evidence that supports your position. This could be:

Historical documents

Photographs

Witness testimonies

Legal precedents

News articles

3. Create a post in your chosen section that includes:

Upload your evidence as an attachment

Explain why this evidence supports your position

Include the source and date of your evidence

Rate how strong you believe this evidence is on a scale of 1-10

4. Be prepared to discuss your evidence in class.

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Jakiw Palij was a former concentration camp guard. He lived peacefully in New York for many years, but when he was identified, there were protests in front of his house where neighbors said things like, "We don't want a Nazi living among us." Finally, at 95 years old, he was deported to Germany in 2018. Germany didn't want to accept him, but did so for humanitarian reasons because he was already very old.

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Jakiw Palij was a former concentration camp guard. He lived peacefully in New York for many years, but when he was identified, there were protests in front of his house where neighbors said things like, "We don't want a Nazi living among us." Finally, at 95 years old, he was deported to Germany in 2018. Germany didn't want to accept him, but did so for humanitarian reasons because he was already very old.

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This reveals to us how both the neighbors of the places where these people hid to protect themselves and their own country rejected them, taking into account that the only way they were accepted in their own country was because of their humanitarian rights. This shows us that the culprits behind the Holocaust are already receiving punishment even if they are not in jail, so it is not necessary to imprison them when they are already being punished for their actions in the public eye.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Aug 21. 2018

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WASHINGTON - Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Attorney General Jeff Sessions of the U.S. Department of Justice, Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and ICE Deputy Director and Acting Director Ronald D. Vitiello announced today. ICE removed Palij based on an order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice in 2004.

"The United States will never be a safe haven for those who have participated in atrocities, war crimes, and human rights abuses," said Attorney General Sessions. "Jakiw Palij lied about his Nazi past to immigrate to this country and then fraudulently become an American citizen. He had no right to citizenship or to even be in this country. Today, the Justice Department - led by Eli Rosenbaum and our fabulous team in the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section, formerly the Office of Special Investigations - successfully helped remove him from the United States, as we have done with 67 other Nazis in the past. I want to thank our partners at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security for all of their hard work in removing this Nazi criminal from our country."

"Nazi war criminals and human rights violators have no safe haven on our shores," said Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "We will relentlessly pursue them, wherever they may be found, and bring them to justice. The arrest and removal of Jakiw Palij to Germany is a testament to the dedication and commitment of the men and women of ICE, who faithfully enforce our immigration laws to protect the American people."

Palij, 95, was born in a part of Poland that is situated in present-day Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1957. He concealed his Nazi service by telling U.S. immigration officials that he had spent the war years working until 1944 on his father's farm in his hometown, which was previously a part of Poland and is now in Ukraine, and then in a German factory.

As Palij admitted to Justice Department officials in 2001, he was trained at the SS Training Camp in Trawniki, in Nazi-occupied Poland, in the spring of 1943. Documents subsequently filed in court by the Justice Department showed that men who trained at Trawniki participated in implementing the Third Reich's plan to murder Jews in Poland, code-named "Operation Reinhard." On Nov. 3, 1943, some 6,000 Jewish men, women and children incarcerated at Trawniki were shot to death in one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust. By helping to prevent the escape of these prisoners during his service at Trawniki, Palij played an indispensable role in ensuring that they later met their tragic fate at the hands of the Nazis.

On May 9, 2002, the Criminal Division's then-Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York filed a four-count complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to revoke Palij's citizenship. The complaint was based primarily upon his wartime activities as an armed guard of Jewish prisoners at Trawniki, who were confined there under inhumane conditions. Palij's U.S. citizenship was revoked in August 2003 by a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York based on his wartime activities and postwar immigration fraud. In November 2003, the government placed Palij in immigration removal proceedings.

In decisions issued on June 10 and Aug. 23, 2004, U.S. Immigration Judge Robert Owens ordered Palij's deportation to Ukraine, Poland or Germany, or any other country that would admit him, on the basis of his participation in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving during World War II as an armed guard at the Trawniki forced-labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland under the direction of the government of Germany and his subsequent concealment of that service when he immigrated to the United States. As Judge Owens wrote in his decision ordering Palij's deportation, the Jews massacred at Trawniki "had spent at least half a year in camps guarded by Trawniki-trained men, including Jakiw Palij." In December 2005, the Board of Immigration Appeals denied Palij's appeal.

The removal of Palij to Germany was effectuated through close cooperation between the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and State. For nearly four decades, the Justice Department has vigorously pursued its mission to expel Nazi persecutors from the United States. The Palij case was the product of the Department's longtime efforts to identify, investigate and take legal action against participants in Nazi crimes of persecution who reside in the United States. Since OSI began operations in 1979, that office and its successor, the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, have won cases against 108 individuals who participated in Nazi crimes of persecution. In addition, attempts to enter the United States by more than 180 individuals implicated in wartime Axis crimes have been prevented as a result of the "Watch List" program initiated by OSI and enforced in cooperation with the Departments of State and Homeland Security.

This removal was supported by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations and Office of the Principal Legal Advisor as well as the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC). The HRVWCC is comprised of ICE HSI's Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Unit, ICE's Human Rights Law Section, FBI's International Human Rights Unit and HRSP. Established in 2009, the HRVWCC furthers the government's efforts to identify, locate and prosecute human rights abusers in the United States, including those who are known or suspected to have participated in persecution, war crimes, genocide, torture, extrajudicial killings, female genital mutilation and the use or recruitment of child soldiers. The HRVWCC leverages the expertise of a select group of agents, lawyers, intelligence and research specialists, historians and analysts who direct the government's broader enforcement efforts against these offenders.

The case was investigated, litigated and supervised over the years by a host of attorneys and historians in OSI, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York, and HRSP, including Director Eli M. Rosenbaum, Senior Trial Attorney Susan L. Siegal and Chief Historian Dr. Jeffrey Richter, all of whom have served with HRSP since its 2010 creation.

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Archived: Former Nazi labor camp guard Jakiw Palij removed to Germany

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Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York, has been removed by ICE to Germany.

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February 1943, asking to be transferred to Auschwitz to continue his experiments—which involved freezing live prisoners. The letter reads: “Auschwitz is more suitable [than Dachau] as it is colder there and the camp itself is much larger, thereby attracting less attention to the test persons, who tend to scream while freezing.” This explains that people would dehumanize the Jews so far to the point they where freezing people alive and happily watch and study as they scream their way to death.

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On Using Nazi Data: The Case Against | Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie | Cambridge Core

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On Using Nazi Data: The Case Against - Volume 25 Issue 3

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This shows that some soldiers in their prime killed a lot of innocent people and when they were in court they were found guilty.

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10 Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals | HISTORY

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Despite ongoing efforts to bring them to justice, many former Nazis have avoided prosecution for their role in the Holocaust, as well as other wartime atrocities.

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"It costs a lot of money, it involves a lot of resources for something which I wouldn't say was not worthwhile, but at least is questionable."

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"It costs a lot of money, it involves a lot of resources for something which I wouldn't say was not worthwhile, but at least is questionable."

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This evidence supports my position in the argument because tracking down nazis is very expensive and requires a lot of hard work to get the resources

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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Should the hunt for Nazis continue?

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As the last remaining Nazis from World War II approach the end of their lives, a debate arises over whether their pursuit is still worthwhile

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"It's pointless to hunt them down now, they're in their 80s and 90s - I would rather look after the survivors, and get their stories on record, so that no-one can deny what happened"

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"It's pointless to hunt them down now, they're in their 80s and 90s - I would rather look after the survivors, and get their stories on record, so that no-one can deny what happened"

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This supports not trying to hunt war criminals down anymore because they are in their old age on the brink of death and also there's better things to spend this money rather than these costly hunts.

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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Should the hunt for Nazis continue?

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As the last remaining Nazis from World War II approach the end of their lives, a debate arises over whether their pursuit is still worthwhile

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This article shows that when the nazi's were killing and harming these innocent people, They knew that what they were doing was wrong.- Jaidyn

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How the Nazis Tried to Cover Up Their Crimes at Auschwitz | HISTORY

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In the winter of 1945, the Nazis tried to destroy the evidence of the Holocaust.

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What is the point in punishing War Criminals when they are about to die, at this point just let them finish their lives.

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What justice? They're 90y.o.! They lived full life, grew very old and probably reading this article with a smirk right now. Its pointless, as sad as it sounds - they've escaped justice in many ways. God will judge them. Why don't all those nazi-hunters stop living in the past and invest these efforts and finances into fighting skin-heads and other "nazi clubs" that are spreading around europe like a plague. If you're fighting the past - you're ignoring the future. And if we learned anything from history - it tends to repeat itself. (BBC News) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7837159.stmLinks to an external site.

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If possible, the money should be diverted to aged Holocaust survivors in difficult financial circumstances, to members of the second generation and to Holocaust education. A show trial does not help the many people who are still suffering the after-effects of the Holocaust seventy years later. Nor do I believe a show trial does anything for Holocaust education. Teach it properly in schools instead. I am a member of the second generation. (BBC News)

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If possible, the money should be diverted to aged Holocaust survivors in difficult financial circumstances, to members of the second generation and to Holocaust education. A show trial does not help the many people who are still suffering the after-effects of the Holocaust seventy years later. Nor do I believe a show trial does anything for Holocaust education. Teach it properly in schools instead. I am a member of the second generation. (BBC News)

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Miki Barnea, Melbourne, Australia. March 2009

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As the last remaining Nazis from World War II approach the end of their lives, it is debatable whether it is still worthwhile to pursue them.

Their crimes took place more than 60 years ago, it is often hard to gather evidence that will secure a conviction, and the defendants could die before the legal process is complete.

Here, two observers put the case for and against continuing efforts to trace and prosecute the guilty.

BERNARD JOSEPHS, FREELANCE JOURNALIST

While I understand the desire to bring these people to book, the fact is that it's for diminishing returns.
It costs a lot of money, it involves a lot of resources for something which I wouldn't say was not worthwhile, but at least is questionable.

There are a lot of Holocaust survivors and families who have suffered trauma, and these people do need help. They need counselling, support financially and otherwise.

We have today a situation where people do question the Holocaust and whether it really happened. I think Holocaust education is another direction where the money should be spent.

We have a burgeoning far right in Europe, and in the UK, and that needs to be addressed.
I just feel that would be a better use of the money than putting on trial people who, in any case, are going to answer for their crimes in a much higher court than we have on earth.
I think hunting these men down now is pointless, but I am absolutely furious that these people, at relatively early ages, were able to carry on lives as normal after the war. We should have hunted them down years ago.

It's pointless to hunt them down now they're in their 80s and 90s. I would rather look after the survivors, and get their stories on record, so that no-one can deny what happened.

BERND KOSCHLAND, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES

We still have to persevere in pursuing the Nazi war criminal for a number of reasons.
They have committed crimes, so they need to be found and it needs to be logged, because otherwise it passes out of human knowledge.

If someone is found guilty then the sentence is really immaterial. What matters is that justice has to be done.

Even though it happened 60-odd years ago, the effects of it on individuals are still there - psychologically and physically.

I came to the UK in 1939, but my parents and several other family members died at the hands of Nazis in camps in Izbica, Poland, and Riga in Latvia.
Tracking Nazis down is an important lesson to demonstrate to potential modern-day human rights abusers that their crimes will never be tolerated.

I don't think you can forgive these people their crimes. What you can do is build a bridge of understanding.

We can live alongside each other as long as we both remember I cannot forgive, you should not be able to forget, but let's build a kind of bridge between each other to make a better future.

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If Hitler himself had escaped and was still around somewhere today, would we allow him to have a peaceful life and put his feet up to enjoy "retirement." Would we excuse him just because it was so long ago? Why should other Nazi criminals have that luxury just because their names are not as known to us as those who stood trial in Nuremberg? Who are we to tell the victims of the Holocaust to forget and forgive? If we had been through what they have, how well would we be sleeping at night? True, the punishment will not fit the crime. True, no money will bring back what has been lost. But how do you put a price tag on the peace of mind of millions who suffer to this very day?

Darren, London

Interesting contributions, I feel some sympathy with the arguments of Bernard Josephs. However, I would recommend the relentless efforts of people like Simon Wiesenthal for bringing war criminals to book. Would it not be a great deterrent for conflict if everyone involved knew that there was going to be justice at the end of the line? Are the efforts of the WSC not a formidable example that we all can hunt down war criminals, whether they were involved in Ireland, Iraq, Vietnam, ex-Yugoslavia, Gaza, Lebanon, Rwanda, Congo.. Sigi Mercelot, Belfast - Ireland

I think that the people who should decide if the remaining Nazis deserve punishment after all this time are the survivors of the holocaust. If they want justice then we should help them, but otherwise it should be left for a judgement that will come one day, that will be bigger and more important than anything here on earth.

Like others have said, money should be spent on helping the survivors with counselling and support - Also on educating the following generations, so that this event will never be forgot or denied.

Surely by definition, all crimes committed are crimes of the past? We still hunt down individual murderers who committed their crimes 10, 20 or even 30 years ago. Why should we stop hunting them down after 60 years if they're still alive? Their crime is made no less brutal, or no less significant by the passage of time. The victims still deserve to see justice done, even if the perpetrator is now an elderly pensioner.

Is it time to draw a conclusion on this (chasing Nazi's) and say that enough is enough. Whilst in an ideal world all these monsters should have been brought to justice, in reality, some have escaped and some have died. Is it really worth the great time and expense chasing 80 and 90 year old men?

This might upset some and, if so, I apologise in advance but forgiveness is the most powerful way of dealing with this issue.

One can talk of justice but in the case of these aging Nazi's this is pointless. They have got away with their crimes and are so close to death now they surely care not about their physical future.

Let those who have committed these unspeakable acts come forward and apologise. Let those who have been in these camps find it in their hearts to forgive.

Stop hunting phantoms and stop being obsessed about a historic event that happened more than 60 years ago. Germany today is probalby one of the few countries around the globe that has learned from history...

The English however are still obsessed with the Nazis more than any other country, but they actually know very little. They need to keep the phantom enemy alive to distract the world from their own bleak history.

What about looking at the countless war crimes and the millions killed during British colonial rule.

Not one serious effort has ever been made by England and the English to de-glorify their recent history.

Where ever Britons put their feet there has been death and war: Zimbabwe, Gaza/Israel, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Iraq just to name a few.

And don´t forget the genocide of natives in North America, Australia etc.

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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Should the hunt for Nazis continue?

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As the last remaining Nazis from World War II approach the end of their lives, a debate arises over whether their pursuit is still worthwhile

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This Article of the Department of Justice supports the claim To continue Pursuing War Criminals, because it states how war criminals should have punishment for what they've done wrong to innocent people.

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Justice Dept. Embraces Supporting Role in Pursuing War Crimes in Ukraine (Published 2023)

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Prosecutors are investigating war crimes against Americans but are mainly focused on helping Ukraine to hold Russians accountable for atrocities.

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Here evidence for someones elses Debate:"Ever since the Nuremberg trials, international law – created in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust – has rejected the alibi of superior orders and emphasized individual criminal responsibility, that every individual is responsible for his or her deeds, and must bear the consequences, even if they were ordered to do so by a person with a higher rank." 

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Here evidence for someones elses Debate:"Ever since the Nuremberg trials, international law – created in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust – has rejected the alibi of superior orders and emphasized individual criminal responsibility, that every individual is responsible for his or her deeds, and must bear the consequences, even if they were ordered to do so by a person with a higher rank." 

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It gives a fact.

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In the document, "The Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivors After the War" it speaks about Holocaust survivors who still have trauma after many years. "Ultimately, symptoms of PTSD in Holocaust survivors have been recognized even more than seventy years after the Holocaust." (Braker).This shows how even after 70 years people still continue to suffer with trauma from the Holocaust. People continue to use resources to find and punish Nazis while they could be using these resources for counseling and mental help for those who still suffer from PTSD. I think using these resources to help people is more important than finding and punishing people who are in their eighties and nineties.

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"The Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivors After the War" Natalie Braker/5-3-2023

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The Effects of Trauma on Holocaust Survivors After the War

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This paper will examine the effects of trauma among Holocaust survivors after the war, including Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), triggers, nightmares, and anxiety. It will review clinical research by comparing it to the range of experiences of Holocaust survivors as described in videotaped interviews during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Upon reviewing existing literature, it becomes clear that PTSD is life-long for Holocaust survivors. PTSD is a mental health condition triggered by either experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event or a series of events. There are four general types of PTSD symptoms: intrusive memories, avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, and changes in physical and emotional reactions. People with PTSD may avoid situations that remind them of the traumatic event, as is the case with Trude Plack, who describes her aversion to flags. She told an interviewer in the 1990s how she once saw a line of flags posted every six feet, causing her to tell her husband that she “couldn’t stay here” and needed to leave. Her need to avoid flags was triggered by witnessing Nazi flags during the Holocaust. According to Trude, her strong reaction to flags has left an irrevocable impression on her. This “irrevocable impression” is a common experience of Holocaust survivors, in which extreme stress in childhood and young adulthood endured from the Holocaust is life-long. Ultimately, symptoms of PTSD in Holocaust survivors have been recognized even more than seventy years after the Holocaust.

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This article tells about a former Nazi soldier that that named John Demjanjuk. The article states "On March 10, 2009, a German judge issued an order directing that Demjanjuk, 89, be arrested on suspicion of assisting in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination center in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II." This shows that no matter the age of the criminal they are still guilty of their crimes they have committed in the past.

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WASHINGTON - John Demjanjuk, a former Nazi death camp guard and a resident of Seven Hills, Ohio, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and ICE Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Torres announced today. Demjanjuk was removed through a court order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice. On March 10, 2009, a German judge issued an order directing that Demjanjuk, 89, be arrested on suspicion of assisting in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination center in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In addition to serving at Sobibor, Demjanjuk served the SS as an armed guard of civilian prisoners in Germany at the Nazi-operated Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in Germany and at Majdanek concentration camp and the Trawniki training and forced labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

"Millions have sought refuge from persecution in this country under liberty's mantle. We will not suffer persecutors and mass murderers tarnishing her image by staking such a claim for themselves," said John P. Torres, ICE Acting Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security. "The U.S. government is dedicated to preventing the cynical exploitation of our nation's immigration system by the worst of the worst. With John Demjanjuk's removal, we reaffirm our commitment to protection of the oppressed, not the oppressor."

Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker who was born in present-day Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1952 by concealing from U.S. immigration authorities his true whereabouts during World War II and his Nazi camp guard service. As a former Sobibor guard, Demjanjuk is only the second person to be removed from the United States after having served at one of the four Nazi camps constructed solely to murder civilians. In 2002, the U.S. District Court in Cleveland revoked Demjanjuk's naturalized U.S. citizenship after a two-week trial prosecuted by the Criminal Division's Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Chief Judge Paul R. Matia found that Demjanjuk participated at the Sobibor extermination center in "the process by which thousands of Jews were murdered by asphyxiation with carbon monoxide" in the camp's gas chambers. In December 2005, then Chief Immigration Judge Michael J. Creppy ordered Demjanjuk removed from the United States to Ukraine, Germany or Poland. In May 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Demjanjuk's petition for review.

OSI Director Eli M. Rosenbaum stated, "John Demjanjuk's actions helped seal the fate of thousands of innocent people during the Holocaust. He has at last received his summons from history."

"The removal to Germany of John Demjanjuk is an historic moment in the federal government's efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer. "Mr. Demjanjuk, a confirmed former Nazi death camp guard, denied to thousands the very freedoms he enjoyed for far too long in the United States. Now, finally, Mr. Demjanjuk has been held accountable in one small way for his part in one of the most horrific chapters in history."

Demjanjuk was first tried on allegations of participation in Nazi persecution in a civil denaturalization (citizenship revocation) case decided in 1981. Relying principally on witness testimony, a federal court found at that time that Demjanjuk was a notorious gas chamber operator at the Treblinka extermination center known to prisoners as "Ivan the Terrible." He was extradited in 1986 to Israel, where he was tried and convicted. However, after the Israeli Supreme Court found that reasonable doubt existed as to whether Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible, he was released and returned to the United States in 1993.

In 1999, the Department of Justice initiated a new denaturalization case against Demjanjuk, relying in large part on captured Nazi documents that came to light following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. In revoking his citizenship in 2002, the district court found that, in addition to serving at Sobibor, where approximately 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered, Demjanjuk had served as an armed guard at Majdanek, a concentration camp and extermination center at which at least 170,000 victims perished. The court also found that Demjanjuk served at Flossenbürg, where thousands of prisoners, confined solely because of their race, religion, national origin or political opinion, died as a result of the inhumane conditions, or were murdered.

The removal of Demjanjuk to Germany was effected through close cooperation between the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and State. The Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in this matter. Demjanjuk's removal is part of OSI's continuing efforts to identify, investigate and take legal action against participants in Nazi crimes of persecution who reside in the United States. Since OSI began operations in 1979, it has won cases against 107 individuals who participated in Nazi crimes of persecution. In addition, attempts to enter the United States by more than 180 individuals implicated in wartime Axis crimes have been prevented as a result of OSI's "Watch List" program, which is enforced in cooperation with the Departments of State and Homeland Security.

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Archived: Former Nazi Death Camp guard John Demjanjuk deported to Germany

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Former Nazi Death Camp guard John Demjanjuk was removed through a court order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice. On March 10, 2009, a German judge issued an order directing that Demjanjuk, 89, be arrested on suspicion of assisting in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination center in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

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This article supports the claim of authorities should continue to locate and punish former Nazis connected to war crimes of the Holocaust because it emphasizes and explains how the Jews we're stripped from their humanity and still to this day deserve their justice.

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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | Nazi persecution of the Jews

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From 1933 to 1938 the Nazis introduced legislation to deny Jews their freedom and restrict their rights. Jews were barred from professional careers, Jewish businesses boycotted, Jewish children denied access to state schools. On 9 November 1938 pograms were initiated against the Jews in all Nazi territories, this became known as Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass).