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On This Day: April 25, 1988 – John Demjanjuk Was Sentenced to Death in Israel

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On This Day: April 25, 1988 – John Demjanjuk Was Sentenced to Death in Israel.

On this day April 25, 1988, former Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by an Israeli court for war crimes committed during World War II. Holocaust survivors in Israel identified him as the brutal guard known as Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka extermination camp.

The case was one of the most highly publicized war crimes trials since Nuremberg, sparking global debate over identity, justice, and the limits of legal certainty in historical prosecutions. Demjanjuk maintained his...
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