European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 21, 1986 the stars and stripes deported sex nazi sentenced to death Moscow a Fyodor Fedorenko the first War criminal extradited from the United slates to the soviet Union was sentenced to death thursday after being found Guilly of treason and mass murder while a guard at nazi death Camps in Poland in world War ii. The official tows Agency Tass said inc 78-year-old Fedorenko a army Soldier captured soon after inc nazis invade Mac Soviel Union in 1941 also was found guilty of vote Clarily going Over to the Side of the fascist aggressors Arlo panic paling in punitive actions against peaceful the indictment read at be Dorchie trial when it opened june 10 said lie served the dream nazi is As a guard at their Camps Al Treblinka in centrum slut Hof on the Baltic coast and then in i def forc he fled West to Hamburg before inc War ended. According to soviet estimates Al least 800,000 peo pie were murdered at Treblinka alone in 1942 and1943. The court in the crimean capital of Simferopol about 115 Miles South of his Hometown of Dzhank Oye heard testimony from several soviets who also served As nazi Camp guards in world War ii. Many of the witnesses had themselves served prison terms after the War ended on charges of betraying their country by working for the nazis according to soviet journalists Al the Inal. At least three witnesses told the court they had Senj Fedorenko beating jews As they shuffled naked Lowan a Gas chamber housed in a railway station thai we decorated to make the prisoners brought there a fail Way cattle cars think they were in route to Pam inc. Another witness said he had seen fed Fenko shoot other prisoners at the Camp. The Alert White haired not deny head worked in Treblinka and re where but said he Only guarded the Camp cup Floc and neither saw nor participated in vtolenceo4nurder. "1 have never she Ruffi person in my life he to a the court on the Foj Airway. Jews were among my hcs friends both inc soviet Union and we Ileal Treblinka. Fedorenko won iwo promotions in Guam Ank from the nazis a fact construed by chief Juder Mikhail Tyutyunnik and prosecutor Zinovy f ssi App Haio Fyodor Fedorenko in court in Simferopol . Csak As an indication of his willingness in Steve Ilie germans. No foreigners Werc a ill d to testify in the trial. Hut questioning by Tju Lynnik and Csak soviet authorities had prepared a thorough Case against a do Ronko. Tass said 21 volumes of paperwork were submitted to the coun. According to the soviets Fedorenko emigrated to the United slates from Hamburg in 1949. He settled for Many years in Walc Bury conn., where he worked in a factory and later retired to Miami Beach Fla. After inc . Justice department began proceedings to strip him of the . Citizenship he acquired in 1970, cd Orinko moved to Pennsylva Nia. According to Tusti Munya mired at the trial Fedo Crnko first contacted Domily left behind in his native Crimea in is he made Jgr St trips to the Soviel Union in 1973 and 197juphn he had reunions with his wife. Prasko i he married in 1929, and inc couple s iwo during the visits Home Fedorenko was questioned by soviet authorities about his wartime activities the court heard. The defendant angrily confronted Al Casl one wit Ness Nikolai Nalogon last week asking Why Nalogon had denied knowing either Fedorenko or anything about Treblinka in 1973 and 1976. Nalogon explained he had then still been working and he did not want to speak out about inc nazi Camp for fear people would Start to talk Aboul his own Days As a Camp guard. Several thousand soviets were prosecuted after world War ii on charges of having betrayed their country by working for the nazis while prisoners of War. In is common for those convicted of treason to be ended to death. I fought a Long Legal Battle in the United Staldt Fluncie being stripped of his citizenship in 1981. He had Lac would return to inc soviet Union if he lost his and was eventually deported 1984. His 75-yc.ir-okl Wittig cd inc court last week fido Crnko reappeared at a crib a Skoye Home without any warning. 1 the was arc sick last been in Cus Tody since. Tass did not say in its report Whir sentence might be carried out or whether cd Renkol Apical. Notorious nazi spy s Skeleton identifier ends up dutch authorities Skeleton they exhumed As that of by Kong a notorious double agent who betrayed scores of Allied resistance Light ers to the nazis during world War ii. The positive identification earlier this week of Christiaan Lindemans alias King Kong apparently ended months of speculation that the spy leaped death in 1946 and was still alive. A member of the dutch resistance himself Lindemans is known to have betrayed Al least 260 dutch belgian and French resistance workers to the Naiia and warned them of Allied plans 1944 Battle of arnhem. Although believe the nazis ignqrei0
