If you attribute those victim’s deaths to Osama Bin Laden, double the figure and add that to the collective of people said to have died at the orchestration of the terror chief , it would still be only a small amount in comparison to the victims of the Nazi death camp guard, John Demjanjuk.It seems the scales of justice swing wildly on different continents.
Demjanjuk, at the age of 91, has been sentenced, today, to five years in prison; and it is suspected he may also get some reduction in his sentence for time served.
The former guard of Sobibor, an SS death camp, is said to have played a hand in the murder of at least 28,000 people.
Ukrainian born, Demjanjuk , was a Red Army soldier before being captured and recruited to the death-camps. After the war he fled to the US to make the transition from a death-camp guard to a car salesman in Ohio for a time. Eventually discovered and handed over to the Israeli authorities, Demjanjuk spent eight years in detention and was formerly sentenced to death before being released on appeal.
Even with a small measure of mercy and blind sympathy for Demjanjuk -being conscripted into the hellish nightmare of a Nazi extermination camp and for choosing self-preservation and cowardice over death- Demjanjuk never showed remorse or bared any testimony to playing a hand in the death of some 28,000 human beings. He has remained steadfast and silent on the truth of his complicity and his crimes deserve as much vilification, and possibly a similar, fate as Bin-Laden, I would think?
I certainly have always been very uncomfortable with capital punishment.Osama Bin laden should have been brought to justice and there is still the aroma of something suspicious around the whole affair. However, I can only marvel at the disparity between U.S 'frontier justice' and the German court's light retribution.
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