Reply #9: Except Demjanjuk was never a Nazi.

[Ikonoklast]

A great many Eastern Europeans and Slavic POW's were forced by Germany into making choices of either doing as they were told, such as being concentration, work or prison camp guards, or getting shot.

I worked with a Romanian national that fought in WWII for the Nazi sympathizer Antonescu of Romania against the USSR, was wounded, captured, and forced to fight for the Russians against his previous countrymen, or get shot.

He was then wounded again, captured by the Germans as a Russian POW, and once again forced at the barrel of a gun to fight against his previous countrymen as Romania fell and switched sides as the Communist partisans took up the fight against Germany.

He did what he did, or like my friend Paul said, if you said "No", you'd get a bullet in the face, and then they'd ask the next guy if he wanted to fight.

No one else said "No".

And they considered anyone that let themselves get captured a traitor, and treated them that way.

I am not apologizing for what Demjanjuk did. But he is not a mass-murderer. If he was guilty of that, Israel would have hung him. They didn't. They let him go.