rondi adamson.ca

Holocaust survivors at first welcomed the Munich court's verdict that Demjanjuk, who was exonerated in another war crimes case in Israel two decades ago, was an accessory to mass murder as a guard at Sobibor camp in Poland during World War Two.

But they then expressed dismay at Judge Ralph Alt's decision to free Demjanjuk despite handing down a five-year sentence.

"At the end he threw everyone in the courtroom a curveball and destroyed the hopes of the survivors of Sobibor," Martin Mendelsohn, counsel for the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center and the lawyer of two co-plaintiffs in the case, told Reuters.

(Emphasis mine.)

I find this truly appalling. In a truly disgusting decision, the French did more or less the same for Maurice Papon. Maybe these guys shouldn't be tried in Europe, the continent (broadly) responsible for the crime in the first place. Maybe they should all be sent to Israel.