Demjanjuk defence team is treading on thin ice by questioning history
…Hearing these arguments in a German court stirs uneasy feelings. Could it be that the defence team is preparing to fight Mr Demjanjuk’s corner by relativising the suffering of the Jews? This is graphically represented in an already crowded Munich courtroom by the presence of Mr Demjanjuk’s sick bed, jutting out close to the witness stand. Jews suffered, is the message — and so did Ukrainians. Mr Demjanjuk, the court will be told, was forced to eat rats in the famine of the 1930s. Leave him in peace, is the message…