My next encounter with war crimes trials came in the Soviet Union, in June 1986 in the Crimean capital of Simferopol. After he retired as a judge, Mr. Walther went to work at Germany’s office for Nazi crimes in Ludwigsburg. In the meantime, Mr. Walther and I sat in Detmold’s pristine old town, which has fine timberwork buildings. That was a corollary to the dilatory pursuit of war crimes prosecutions by a West German justice system that was riddled with lawyers and judges who were former Nazis. Hailing from the same region as Mr. Demjanjuk, Mr. Fedorenko received nothing like the thorough hearing of a German court.

Source: New York Times June 17, 2016 13:07 UTC