Two grainy black-and-white photos showing a man authorities believe to be convicted Nazi collaborator John Demjanjuk working at the Sobibor death camp were published today. Inside the surprise findings:
, that contradict the late U.S. auto worker’s steadfast claims that he was never there.
An estimated 167,000 Jews were killed at Sobibor, using vehicle exhaust fumes, even though there were only about 20 German SS officers stationed at the camp. About 300 inmates escaped the camp after the uprising; there are only 58 known survivors. “It’s an important development because this is a piece of hard evidence, and there was not a lot of hard evidence at Demjanjuk’s trial,” said. The professor at Berlin’s Free University and expert on Germany’s Nazi past said it was “all by chance that these are coming to light, but it’s also significant to see all these pictures from Sobibor. Very little is known about it because there were so few survivors and hardly any images until now.
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