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The right wrong man, John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial, Lawrence Douglas

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The right wrong man

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Lawrence Douglas

John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial

"In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the longest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as 'Ivan the Terrible' of Treblinka--only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland.... Douglas offers ... both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history."--Front flap of jacket

Introduction -- The beginning of the end of something -- John in America -- Ivan in Israel -- Demjanjuk redux -- Demjanjuk in Munich -- Was damals Recht war ... -- Memory into history -- The trial by history -- The right wrong man -- Postscript