Demjanjuk Plea on ID Card Fails
Associated Press
JERUSALEM —
The judges in the Nazi war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk decided today to admit as evidence an identity card supplied by the Soviet Union that prosecutors say shows the retired U.S. auto worker trained as a death camp guard later known as “Ivan the Terrible.”
The three-judge panel rejected defense arguments that the card was a forgery and should be disqualified. Prosecutors say the document is an ID from Trawniki, a camp in Nazi-occupied Poland where death camp guards were trained. It bears Demjanjuk’s name.
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