In 1993, five years after his trial, Demjanjuk was freed by Israeli supreme court judges who ruled there was insufficient evidence to show that he had been Ivan the Terrible. Nevertheless, their judgment indicated that although they could not find him guilty beyond reasonable doubt, they also doubted that he was innocent.
Documentary evidence seemed conclusively to identify Demjanjuk as a graduate of Trawniki, an SS training school in Poland. From there he had been posted to the death camp at Sobibor; a scar left by a surgically-removed SS tattoo indicating his blood group, along with an account of his activities during the Second World War — riddled with contradictions and sinister coincidences — appeared to confirm this.
In December 2009 Demjanjuk, 89 years old and deeply sick, went on trial again, this time in Munich, where he was wheeled into court each day strapped to a gurney. In a bizarre piece of judicial theatre, he lay there, apparently groaning in pain, as witnesses (many of them descendants of Sobibor victims) gave their testimony.
In May 2011 the German court convicted him of helping to murder almost 30,000 Jews at Sobibor, amounting to the number killed during the period when he was a guard there. A total of a quarter of a million people were murdered at the death camp. “The court is convinced that the defendant served as a guard at Sobibor from March 27 1943 to mid-September 1943,” said presiding Judge Ralph Alt, sentencing him to five years in jail. “As guard he took part in the murder of at least 28,000 people.” ________________________________
Т.е., у деда также присутствовала сс-татуировка, которую он вывел.
а вот еще цитата из Нью Йорк Таймс:
Mr. Demjanjuk’s defense lawyers argued that an SS identity card and other documents were falsified by the Soviets. But Judge Alt said there was a clear trail of documents and testimony that demonstrated Mr. Demjanjuk’s path from Soviet prisoner of war to Sobibor guard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/europe/14nazi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
