Demjanjuk Trial to Start Jan. 19
An Israeli court today set Jan. 19 as the date for the opening of the trial of retired American auto worker John Demjanjuk on charges he killed hundreds of thousands of Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland during World War II where he was known as “Ivan the Terrible.”
The trial of Demjanjuk, 66, will be Israel’s first for Nazi war crimes since it tried and hung Adolf Eichmann in 1962. Eichmann was abducted by Israeli spies from his hide-out in Argentina, while Demjanjuk was handed over by the United States nine months ago.
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