June: Demjanjuk is imprisoned in Kovno, Ukraine.
July: Demjanjuk enters the Trawniki training camp.
September: Demjanjuk serves as a guard at Okszow, Poland.
January: Demjanjuk serves as a guard at Majdanek.
March: Demjanjuk serves as a guard at Sobibor.
April: Bermuda Conference opens.
August: Prisoners at Treblinka revolt.
October: Demjanjuk is transferred to Regensburg, where he receives the SS blood-type tattoo. Prisoners at Sobibor revolt.
June: Allies land on the beaches of Normandy.
September: Germany launches its first V-2 rocket against London.
February: Yalta Conference is convened.
April: Private Galione discovers Camp Dora. Hitler commits suicide. President Roosevelt dies.
May: Germany surrenders to the Western Allies.
August: United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
September: Japan surrenders.
POST-WORLD WAR II
May: Demjanjuk enters a DP camp at Landshut, Germany.
August: President Truman approves Operation Paperclip.
February: George F. Kennan writes the Long Telegram.
July: President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, which reorganizes the U.S. military and creates the National Security Council (NSC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
September: Demjanjuk marries Vera Kowlowa in a DP camp in Landshut, Germany.
November: Demjanjuk receives his German driver’s license and begins working for the U.S. Army.
March: Demjanjuk applies for and receives International Refugee Organization (IRO) refugee status.
June: Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act. NSC creates the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC).
August: White House approves Operation Bloodstone.
December: Demjanjuk applies for a U.S. visa.
February: Demjanjuks arrive in the United States.
June: Congress passes a new immigration law opening the door for former Nazis and Nazi collaborators.
November: Demjanjuk receives U.S. citizenship and changes his first name to John.
July:
November: Elizabeth Holtzman is elected to Congress.
December: Anthony DeVito and Vincent Schiano blow the whistle on the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
June:
September: Demjanjuk’s name appears on Michael Hanusiak’s Ukrainian list.
May: Miriam Radiwker begins investigating Feodor Fedorenko and Demjanjuk in Israel.
August: The U.S. government files charges of immigration fraud against Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible.
September:
THE TRIALS
May: General Accounting Office issues its first report on Nazis in America.
July: Fedorenko goes on trial in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
September: First photos of the Trawniki card appear in Ukrainian newspapers. Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is created.
November: OSI receives the Fedorenko Protocol and fails to give it to the Demjanjuk defense.
January: OSI attorney George Parker writes the doubt memo. Supreme Court overturns the Fedorenko decision.
February: Demjanjuk’s denaturalization trial opens in Cleveland.
June: Judge Frank Battisti strips Demjanjuk of his U.S. citizenship.
April: Demjanjuk deportation hearing opens.
May: John Loftus exposes
August: Justice Department releases Allan Ryan’s report on Klaus Barbie.
May: Immigration court orders Demjanjuk deported to the Soviet Union.
April: Federal judge orders that Demjanjuk be extradited to Israel.
July: The GAO issues its second Nazis-in-America report.
August: Collaborator Tscherim Soobzokov is assassinated by a pipe bomb.
December: Former Nazi guard Ignat Danilchenko dies.
January: Demjanjuk leaves for Israel.
November: Demjanjuk trial opens in Jerusalem.
April: Demjanjuk is convicted and sentenced to death.
December: Defense attorney Dov Eitan commits suicide or is murdered. Yoram Sheftel is attacked with
