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390 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR<br />

“Experts doubt […] that Demjanjuk will be convicted. The Dutch<br />

jurist Christiaan Rüter […] does not believe in a conviction. For<br />

years Germany has not prosecuted low-ranking camp guards like<br />

Demjanjuk, and if there were trials, they resulted in acquittals. If<br />

that has been legal practice for years, the Munich court could not<br />

suddenly diverge from it. […] For its 50 th anniversary the Central<br />

Agency [for the prosecution <strong>of</strong> NS crimes] needed something special,<br />

a famous name for it to occupy center stage once again – that<br />

was his [Rüter’s] provocative thesis. According to this not legal but<br />

political arguments would have brought about the investigation and<br />

the trial against Demjanjuk.”<br />

How true!<br />

Whether the Munich court will bring itself to pronouncing an acquittal<br />

in uncertain. Considering the enormous political pressure exerted on<br />

the court, we fear that this will not be the case. Before the trial started, it<br />

became known that “close to 40 joint plaintiffs have been accepted, all<br />

<strong>of</strong> them family members <strong>of</strong> people murdered at Sobibór.” 1137 There is<br />

no better pro<strong>of</strong> for our thesis that the real purpose <strong>of</strong> the trial is the<br />

promotion <strong>of</strong> the “<strong>Holocaust</strong>” hysteria and the further cementation <strong>of</strong><br />

the legally prescribed view <strong>of</strong> history, because not a single one <strong>of</strong> the 40<br />

joint plaintiffs can contribute anything to the questions the court must<br />

answer: firstly whether Demjanjuk was ever stationed at Sobibór at all,<br />

and more importantly whether he committed any crimes there.<br />

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