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Chapter V: Treblinka Trials 175
this time for his alleged service in the camps Sobibór, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg.
505
As do so many legends, that of ‘Ivan the Terrible’ may contain a kernel of
truth: presumably a brutal Ukrainian guard feared by the prisoners, who was
called Ivan or the like, did serve in Treblinka. All else is pure fantasy.
The Demjanjuk trial, in which all five Jewish ‘eyewitnesses’ proved to be
perjured liars and swindlers, dealt a frightful blow to the credibility of such
witnesses. In fact, since that trial no more ‘gas chamber witnesses’ have dared
to testify in court.
505 In that month, Demjanjuk was once more deprived of American citizenship on the initiative
of the U.S. government; cf. “In Kürze”, Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung,
6(2) (2002), p. 239.