OK, I was wrong when I said he was right.
I accepted sobieski’s take on what happened after Demjanjuk fell off my radar.
Shoulda known better...
He was a concentration camp guard at Sobibor named Ivan Demjanjuk.
Another concentration camp guard at Treblinka at the same time was named Ivan Marchenko and nicknamed "Ivan The Terrible."
Both were trained at the SS facility in Trawniki before being assigned to Sobibor and Treblinka respectively.
Ivan Demjanjuk's mother's maiden name was Marchenko.
When he was prosecuted in 1988, it was believed that Ivan Demjanjuk and Ivan Marchenko were the same man, Demjanjuk using his mother's maiden name as an alias.
In 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the documentary picture revealed holes in the prosecution's case and Demjanjuk was freed.
However, subsequent research has revealed that Demjanjuk really was a concentration camp guard at Sobibor and a Trawniki trainee - this thanks to documents that were uncovered in the former Soviet Union and which had been unavailable to US and Israeli prosecutors in 1988.
Since both the US and Israel adhere to the principle of double jeopardy, Demjanjuk is free from prosecution in either jurisdiction. Demjanjuk is also immune from deportation, since up until now no other country has wanted to take him.
German prosecutors, armed with evidence unavailable before 1994, will now undertake the prosecution. Perhaps Demjanjuk's victims will finally be given some small justice.