Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp

[mookiemookie]

John Demjanjuk, a retired American autoworker embroiled in three decades of legal proceedings over his Nazi-era past, was freed pending an appeal on Thursday after a court sentenced him to five years in prison for helping to force some 28,000 Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/wo...nazi.html?_r=1

I'm not sure I agree with this. After 66 years and no real hard evidence against the guy other than he worked at the camp, how do you pin that on him? You could use that line of reasoning to indict anyone who did any sort of work at all in Nazi Germany. The guy is 91 years old. Any sort of jail time is a death sentence. What's really the point here?

How is this guy different than the Operation Paperclip scientists who developed the V2s that killed thousands of English people? There were no trials for them.