University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 30, 1992
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KGB may hold evidence in 'Ivan the Terrible' case
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — The prosecutor in the John Demanjuk case has gone to Moscow to seek more evidence before final arguments in Demanjuk's appeal of his conviction as a Nazi war criminal, the Justice Ministry said yesterday.
Demjanuk was identified as the Nazi death camp guard known as "Ivan the Terrible." Soviet files containing testimony by Nazi guards in occupied Poland during World War II revealed key evidence in his appeal.
Israel radio said Prosecutor Michael Shaked went to Russia to look at KGB security service files. Justice Ministry representative Etti Eshed confirmed the report but declined to elaborate.
Demjanjuk, 72, a retired Cleveland auto worker, was convicted of crimes against humanity and against the Jewish people in 1988. He was sentenced to death.
The Ukrainian-born Demanjak maintains he is a victim of mistaken
The Ukrainianborn Demjanjuk maintains he is a victim of mistaken identity.
identity and was never in the Treblinka camp, where "Ivan" operated the gas chamber and where 850,000 Jews perished in 1942-43. He says he spent most of World War II as a prisoner of war after been captured as a Red Army soldier.
Defense lawyer Yoram Sheflet maintains that the real death camp guard is a man named Ivan Kovacs and he landed there was a KB file on marchenko.
Shaked said he thought it would be important to find the Marchenko file
and see whether it fit in the puzzle he was trying to build.
But he also said he would not seek the file if it delayed final arguments on his client's appeal, which is expected this summer.
Demjanjuk has been imprisoned in Israel since his extradition from the United States in 1986.
Sheftel has introduced as evidence testimony from guards at Treblinka who said the real Ivan was Marchenko and that he did not look like Demjanjuk. The testimony was taken during Soviet trials on Nazi war crimes during the 1950s and 1960s, and the guards were later executed.
Shaked has argued that Demanjuk used the alias Marchenko, pointing out he listed it as his mother's maiden name on a U.S. immigration application.
Jews blast German chancellor Kohl's comments could heighten anti-Semitism,leaders charge
Sheftel says Demanjak could not remember his mother's maiden name and listed the common Ukrainian name Marchenko because he did not want to leave blank spaces on the form.
The Associated Press
BONN, Germany — The head of Germany's Jewish Community said Chancellor Helmut Kohl's angry remarks about the World Jewish Congress could fan anti-Semitism in this country, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Andin Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli Foreign Minister David Levie leveled unusual criticism at Germany, saying he expected its leaders to display greater sensitivity toward Jews.
Kohl said Friday that in 1989, a representative of the World Jewish Congress had argued against German unity and the right of self-determination for the Germans. Kohl called the remarks outrageous.
Kohl made the comment after the congress blasted him for meeting that day in Munich with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, who has been shunned by other Western leaders because of his alleged participation in Nazi persecutions as a German army officer during World War II.
Kohl, responding to the criticism, said he did not need advice on with whom he could meet.
Levy said on Israel radio that the Germans and their chancellor should show greater sensitivity toward Jews than any other people.
"They say there is a different Germany," Levy said. "We would like to see an expression of that change."
Heinz Galinski, who heads the German Jewish Community, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that it was the chancellor's right to choose with whom he wanted to meet.
But, Galinski said, Kohl should have expected criticism for his red-carpet
welcome of a controversial political personality and displayed more political responsibility and tact.
Galinski said Kohl should have known that his remarks about the Jewish congress and unification would cause anti-Jewish feelings among Germans.
Galinski said Germans could get the wrong impression that his organization, the Central Council of Jews in Germany, had opposed unification. The newspaper quoted him as saying, "To the contrary, we did not shed the slightest tear for the Communist regime."
Kohl had asked for a clarification of the congress' attitude toward unification from the organization's president, Edgar Bronfman. A representative for Kohl said Bronfman's response was not satisfactory.
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