It’s hard to pin down Nazi atrocities, as Canada’s speaker has just discovered | Robin Lustig

There will be no more trials of Second World War criminals, but we can apply the lessons to modern conflicts

In February 1987, I was sitting in a Jerusalem courtroom, listening to the most harrowing testimony imaginable from survivors of the Nazi death camp at Treblinka, in Poland, where an estimated 700,000-900,000 people were murdered in 1942-43.

The survivors, elderly and frail, were giving evidence in the trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-American alleged to have been a notorious camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible". He was the one, they said, who operated the engines that pumped the gas into the gas chambers.

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