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Gang:
Apologies to Peter if he forwarded it already, but I don't recall this
article in recent RAINS, and it is an interesting one, in which the
lawyer for the accused (Michael E. Tigar) calls the proceedings "trial
by archive," since no eyewitnesses still survive, and the evidence is
all in records.

New York Times, May 30, 2001.
U.S. Again Prosecutes Man Cleared of Being Reviled Nazi
by Francis X. Clines

Cleveland, May 29-Eight years after an Israeli appeals court overturned
his conviction as the notorious Nazi death camp sadist Ivan the
Terrible, John Demjanjuk, an 81-year-old retired Cleveland auto worker,
went on trial here today with his American citizenship once more at
stake.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/30/national/30IVAN.html?searchpv=day01>

Mark

Mark Lambert
Special Collections and Government Documents Librarian
South Texas College of Law Library
Houston, TX

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