Demjanjuk used to be an auto worker in Ohio. He also used to be in the army. Not our army, Germany's. Not today's Germany, Nazi Germany. According to the verdict in court today, in Germany, and assorted accusations over the years, since 1977, when he was first identified as a war criminal, he is also a murderer, over 27,000 times over. After his convictions and appeals in Europe, his revoked citizenship here was actually restored!!! In 2002! Would it have happened if his last name was Mohammad or Ahmed? I think not. What finally convinced the State Department to "unrestore" this monster's citizenship here in America was the discovery that he had concealed the fact that he had been a Nazi officer! My question to the government is: why was he here in the first place, when plenty of innocent people from other countries cannot be here?
My question to the people in Ohio is: how could you guys live and work side by side with someone who obviously enjoyed killing members of a certain cultural group of people? How? Was everyone too busy to get to know him, just a little? It seems like a lust for blood in the amount of 27,000 people should be a bit more obvious.
Here's an article describing reactions to this man's guilty verdict, even though he is ninety-one years old.
I am not necessarily blaming other Americans for overlooking this war criminal, but I would really like to know why he found it SO comfortable to just live here, in this country? Why does any criminal find it comfortable to live here, among us? Do we ever stop and think about ways we can become proactive about living our lives in such a way that individuals such as Demjanjuk would not want to live next door to us?
My question to the people in Ohio is: how could you guys live and work side by side with someone who obviously enjoyed killing members of a certain cultural group of people? How? Was everyone too busy to get to know him, just a little? It seems like a lust for blood in the amount of 27,000 people should be a bit more obvious.
Here's an article describing reactions to this man's guilty verdict, even though he is ninety-one years old.
I am not necessarily blaming other Americans for overlooking this war criminal, but I would really like to know why he found it SO comfortable to just live here, in this country? Why does any criminal find it comfortable to live here, among us? Do we ever stop and think about ways we can become proactive about living our lives in such a way that individuals such as Demjanjuk would not want to live next door to us?
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