I had not known about this case until I watched this series.
It brings up significant issues about justice for past crimes, but also ensuring a case beyond reasonable doubt. As can be seen in the footage, achieving an objective case on such a sensitive topic in Israel was a major challenge & belief appears to have replaced evidence. Despite being keen to see justice if this guy was guilty, there is also this concern that maybe this guy was being framed for bigger agendas. To rely on survivors, who were comparing a person now to how he looked over 40 years ago is a dubious process, and you must wonder whether in Israel such neutrality could occur or would a testament of a survivor be treated neutrally by all parties, or favoured because of the context & issue.
As I watched the doco, I thought most likely all Ukrainian men of his age had engaged in murder, but was this guy a significant one in the carnage or one of the team? For the survivors to feel doubted seems cruel, but at the same time we are talking about a person who could be executed & might be innocent. The other issue which it raised for me was the possibility of ethnic profiling by survivors. I cant help imagining that for a lot of survivors, most people of Ukrainian background could appear similar & scary, just as many survivors never wished to ever visit Germany again.
This is an excellent series, well worth watching. In the summing up, important issues are touched on, including how many Nazis were allowed to settle in the US & elsewhere.
