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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(7 Apr 1987) STORY ISRAEL: The prosecution succeeded in introducing the controversial Ravnicki document as an exhibit in the trial of alleged war criminal John Demjanjuk. This was despite objections by defence counsel Mark O'Connor. The judge ruled that the document which allegedly shows Demjanjuk served in the SS camp of Travnicki did not constitute evidence in the trial but might do so at a later date & it was therefore peremitted to ask a prosecution witness to give his opion on the authenticity of the card. Testifying the Holocaust Historian Wofgang Scheffler said it would be a sensation if the card were not authentic - in his opinion as a Historian it was the authentic card of someone who had been at Travnicki. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d70e80d30590b904160907f5bea77d60
