Nazi War Crimes Trials-2

 3. Demyanyuk's

The Demjanjuk incident is an event that shows a very dramatic reversal. The charges against Demjanyuk were that he was a Soviet soldier, but after being captured by Germany, he worked as a guard at the Treblinka camp and participated in numerous Jewish killings. Working as an auto worker at a Ford company in Cleveland, USA, he confirmed that several survivors were "Ivan the Terrible," which was notorious among the detainees. Eventually, in 1986, he was deported from the United States to Israel and tried for murder. However, the battle continued as to whether it was the 'Evan' in question.

Initially, the Israeli court convicted him and sentenced him to death in 1988. However, in the Israeli Supreme Court, Demyanyuk's lawyers claimed in court that the United States and Israel conspired to hide evidence that he was not "Iban." They revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice had already obtained such evidence from the Soviet Union in 1978 and presented the data. These were 19 materials consisting of the contents of the KGB newspaper and captured documents from the Nazi's. These evidences contained testimonies that Ivan Marchenko, another Ukrainian guard, was not Demyanyuk. It was also argued that Martchenko, the real problematic "Evan," is nine years older and 3.5 inches taller. In the end, Demyanyuk was acquitted by the Israeli Supreme Court after Soviet data were released.

4. Andrea Artkovic trial

Andreja Artukovic served as the interior minister of the Croatian Ustasia regime, which was founded during World War II with the support of Mussolini and Hitler. When Germany seized Yugoslavia and established a puppet regime while working for the far-right organization Ustasis, it was nicknamed the "Balkan slayer" and "death interior minister" for indiscriminately slaughtering Croatian rival Serbs, Tito guerrillas and gypsies.

Following the defeat of the Nazi's, Artkovic stayed in Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and set his final destination in the United States. In the summer of 1948, he infiltrated Los Angeles, USA under the pseudonym Anich, and claimed citizenship. In the process, however, the U.S. government did not take appropriate action, knowing that the Yugoslavian government wanted him as a war criminal and requested extradition, and the Yugoslavian government disclosed him to the U.S. media in 1951. American newspapers have made headlines that one of the most important war criminals lives there. Legal proceedings to expel him have now begun, and his plan to settle for America has failed.

Artkovic's repatriation took more than 30 years due to the conflict between the U.S. and Yugoslavia, the parties to the Cold War, and delays in judicial proceedings in the U.S., but eventually ended up being expelled. In May 1985, 41 years later, a trial was held in Yugoslavia, the scene of his crime, and he was sentenced to death. The Yugoslav court sentenced him to death by firing squad and said it was a "win of justice." In Yugoslavia, capital punishment was not allowed for those over 80 years of age, and Artkovic was 86 years of blindness, but he sentenced him to death in the sense of judging the sins of the Croatian regime and Nazism.

5. Menten trial

Pieter Nicolas Menten, a member of the SS unit in 1941, is known to have killed dozens of Jews in a village in Poland. In 1949, he was imprisoned for eight months on charges of Nazi servitude. In the 1950s, Poland demanded the repatriation of him, who lived in a luxurious apartment with 40 rooms in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on charges of war crimes, but failed. Manten hid his past and became one of Amsterdam's most successful art collectors. In 1976, Nazi hunters increased pressure on the Dutch government and began an investigation into it. Manten fled to Switzerland, but was returned to the Netherlands.

Subsequently, a geographical trial of the mentees began. The Dutch government also spent as much as $5 million in litigation costs. Some were acquitted, but the slaughter of 20 Polish Jews was found guilty. However, the Dutch Supreme Court overturned the ruling in 1952 on the grounds that the Ministry of Justice granted immunity in recognition of its contribution to supporting the Netherlands after the war, and was convicted again at the request of the government. Menten finally insisted on mental and physical weakness, but it was not accepted, so he began serving in 1980.

5. Schwamberg trial

Schwamberg was involved in a number of Jewish killings while working as a SS captain in concentration camps in German-occupied Poland. Known as the "Polish butcher" arrested in Argentina in 1987 and repatriated to Germany, he was briefly arrested in Austria in 1945 and fled, and has lived in Argentina since 1949. In 1987, the West German government offered a reward of $500,000 and was soon arrested by the police. After losing his shield with the resignation of Argentina's military regime, he was deprived of his nationality under the Alfonsin government and deported to Germany. He is the Simon Bicentral Center (a representative Nazi hunter organization). He was one of the most wanted teenage Nazi war criminals in the country, who arrested 1,000 war criminals and put them on trial. Originally, he was indicted on charges of being involved in the genocide of 3,000 Jews, including 40 people he killed himself. Victims who flocked to the Court of Stuttgart from various continents pointed to him 50 years ago, confirming that he was the master, the judge, the murderer, the god and the devil. He was said to have been cruel enough to chase 15 men and women who entered the burning warehouse and shoot again at the lit people. Even the lawyer did not deny his crime, but only pointed out the confusion and contradictions of the evidence, claiming that "time is the enemy of the truth." Already an 80-year-old man, he watched the trial with a very bent back and expressionless face. He denied his crime and denied his memory during the war. At the same time, I remembered the pre-war work and the fact that I joined the SS. Schwamberg was sentenced to life imprisonment after 11 months of trial in this case, which would be the last major Nazi criminal trial.