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A year and a half after the start of the trial of John Demjanjuk in Munich, the former guard at the Sobibor concentration camp (Poland) has been sentenced to five years in prison for "complicity in the death of 28,000 Jews" — a "jugdement of Solomon" argues Trouw. The Amsterdam daily points out that the verdict "is close to the demand made by Jules Schelvis, one of the camp’s survivors [and a plaintiff in the case]” in his final plea in the Munich court room: “Sentence him but do not punish him, this man is too old." While awaiting his appeal, "Demjanjuk has been released in view of his advanced age [he is 91 years old] and his delicate health."
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