Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp

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I don't doubt that circumstances may well have weighed heavily on Demjanjuk's choice to enlist rather than share the fate of millions of Soviet POWs executed in the very camps. However no matter how hard, it was still a choice, and one doesn't simply end up in that very specific type of SS unit by circumstances alone. So the fact is, there are repercussions to any choice one consciously makes. And he has to face up to them just like everyone else. A mild prison sentence handed to you at the end of your life is a far cry from what he might've faced if he actually was caught on the spot, and would've still deserved.

Complaints about the supposed inhumanity of the sentence from his family here ring about as empty as Bin Laden's sons' complaints about supposed "disrespect" caused to their family by the treatment of his body.