

Photo Credit: Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, walks down one of the corridors in his office building, this one lined with photos of John Demjanjuk.
By James Verini
Crowded in front of the television in Eli Rosenbaum’s office, his staff was taken with a giddy anticipation not often found in employees of the United States Department of Justice.
The mood was doubly odd because the footage they watched was pretty dull: a Gulfstream jet idled on a runway at Cleveland International Airport. Rosenbaum’s eyes were glued to the screen too, but he wasn’t giddy. He wore a skeptical frown. The coverage was broadcasting live on CNN, on May 11 of
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This was a very eye-opening article. Not about the war and all of its well-known horrors that as many readers already know can ever be fully understood by anyone who didn’t live through those days like many of our parents had. But what surprised me was how many people whom I had not always agreed with but had enormous respect for interceded on behalf of war criminals they knew personally saying what good upstanding people they were. It’s like they never realized ordinary people did do those things and anyone who can convince you of absurdities can convince you to do atrocities. These men and women were not born monsters but lies and propaganda can turn people into monsters who truly believe they are doing the right thing. If Germany had won the war these same people would have continued doing those same horrible things thinking it was the will of God.