BERLIN, Aug. 9 (EFE) .- The German justice processes proposed to open two late for Nazi crimes, one against the fugitive Klaas Carel Faber, 87, and another against the former concentration camp guard Alex N., a witness in the trial of alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk Ukrainian.
Germanic Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, studying the possibility of processing in Germany and extradited to the Netherlands to Faber, who was sentenced in 1948 to death in the Netherlands-sentence later commuted to life imprisonment, and for decades living in Bavaria .
exercised during the Nazi SS guard responsible for the transport of Dutch Jews to concentration camps and sentenced as directly responsible for the deaths of at least eleven of these prisoners.
After the Second World War he fled to Germany, where so far avoided being extradited to their country under a decree of Adolf Hitler, 1943, under which citizenship was granted automatically to German SS volunteers.
opened in German Court Faber measures the time, according to the Bavarian television, so far without consequences for him.
addition to this case, the weekly "Der Spiegel" revealed this weekend to witness the process of Demjanjuk, 90, who following his statement in that trial proceedings have been opened.
The suspect, identified by such means as Alex N. born in 1917 in Ukraine, is in the Munich goal of justice for alleged complicity in the executions of Jews. Alex N.
also resident in Bavaria since the end of World War II, he served as Demjanjuk as a guard at Nazi concentration camps.
Against Demjanjuk was opened in November last year, in the Court of Munich, a trial for complicity in the deaths of at least 27,900 Jews at Sobibor in Poland today.
The trial, which assists the defendant lying on a stretcher or wheelchair, has been marked by several interruptions caused by his poor health.
Demjanjuk, born in Ukraine in 1920, was captured by the Nazis in 1942 and allegedly became saved in various fields.
In the 50's he emigrated to the U.S. as a victim of Nazism, as a former prisoner, and changed his first name, Ivan, by John.
In 1975 he was identified as the alleged criminal Nazi and extradited to Israel, where he was tried and sentenced to death by hanging in 1988, as alleged "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka.
After five years on death row were overturned the conviction, unable to prove who was at Treblinka and identified to such "Ivan the Terrible" as Ivan Marchenko.
Source: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=480996
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