In a Canadian Press article, titled "Nazi Hunter Investigated" and dated April 28, 1998, we learn the following:
"A top Nazi hunter, hired to help Canada pursue suspected war criminals, is under investigation for perjury by the Justice Department in the United States.
"Neal Sher, a Washington lawyer, told the Commons justice committee Wednesday that he is being investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility, a unit of the U.S. Justice Department that handles complaints about attorneys."
The accusation is that the Office of Special Investigations, which employed Sher and which he eventually headed for some 15 years, has been withholding evidence that might have been helpful to the case of Andrija Artukovic, a California resident who was extradited to Yugoslavia for alleged war crimes during World War II. Neal Sher was hired last year by the Government of Canada to shore up the sagging War Crimes hunt - a consultancy some cynics insist was done to please and enrich the insatiable Canadian Holocaust Lobby that needs the media attention and subsequent increase in funding to Jewish Lobby groups such high visibility "war criminals" cases invariably bring.
The person who hired Sher, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Sims, claimed he was not aware of the investigation conducted in the USA when he hired Sher at the rate of US$200 an hour. The Zundel-Haus team certainly was.
Here was a so-called "Nazi hunter" who did shoddy work in at least three high profile cases known to the world, thanks to a then still at least partly vigilant press:
Frank Walus, of Polish descent, a little harmless man who had been a teenage farmer's field hand in Germany. Out of the blue, Walus was viciously physically, financially and morally attacked in the US like few other citizens ever when the Simon Wiesenthal unleashed a witch hunt on Walus - absolutely unfounded and bolstered with fraudulent documents
A Rumanian German man by the name of Bartesch, who was torn from his family on trumped-up accusations and altered, mistranslated and deported to Austria, his health and way of life in shreds. He died a short time after.
John Demjanjuk, a high profile case as "Ivan the Terrible" and a U.S. citizen, charged with crimes in a location where he had never been. Demjanjuk was forcibly deported to Israel where he spent seven years in solitary confinement in prison and came within a hair's width of being hanged for "crimes" he never committed - when evidence of documented fraud freed him at Zero Hour.
Much can and should be said about these cases, led by Neal Sher. These cases were prime examples of vicious Soviet style ambush on the lives of three innocent men.
This same ruthless man who headed these investigations now stands before a Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to justify his conduct. It feels sweet that, for once, it is not a so-called "Holocaust Denier" on whom the system wants to vent its wrath!
An observer in the hearings sent us the following summary notes, taken in longhand, which give only an overview glimpse:
Mr. Sims: "We're regaining momentun in dealing with (World War II crimes) cases. In this highly specialized business, an outside expert who has been with the OSI (Office of Special Investigations in the United States) fits the requirement. Mr. Sher is a consultant, not an employee of the Department of Justice.
Neal Sher: "OSI has an excellent record in identifying war criminals and achieving their deportation from the USA. I am familiar with the kinds of cases that are now being processed in Canada. I was instrumental in the hiring of the Chief Historian for the Canadian War Crimes Unit."
Who is, incidentally, Bettina Birn, a courageous lady librarian who decided to defect to the truth if not to Revisionism and who had the guts to label the Jonah Goldhagen smearfink a shoddy if not fraudulent "researcher" - much to the horror of the Chosenites who hired her.
Neal Sher: "I met the Demjanjuk charges head-on and up-front. The Federal Trial Judge Wiseman examined the evidence of wrongful persecution in depth over 1 1/2 years. He concluded that the officials acted in good faith and were not wilfully blind, but that mistakes were made . . . "
Sure. "Mistakes" such as putting Demjanjuk in a camp where he was not, and giving him another man's identity by slight-of-hand that could have resulted in an innocent old man being hanged!
Neal Sher: "Demjanjuk has had his citizenship restored, but new charges against him may well be pursued. The Israeli court, in acquitting Demjanjuk, indicated growing doubts that remained about his guiltiness in respect of war crimes, since he undoubtedly belonged to the infamous "WACHMANN" brigade of guards, founded specifically to do away with Jews.
"At Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka, Jews arrived in great numbers, and within two hours literally were turned into smoke. These were 400 men who had one specific job, and that was to kill Jews. Demjanjuk, at a minimum, served at Sobibor.
Jack Ramsey, Reform Party MP: "I have received letters regarding your performance in OSI. A panel of three judges headed by Chief Judge Merritt, of the 6th Circuit Court, USA, found ***prosecutorial fraud*** in respect of the Demjanjuk case in the USA, rendering the discovery process incomplete. "Reckless assumption" of the guilt of the accused took place. You (Mr. Sher) have just indicated that you still think that Demjanjuk was a mass murderer. Is this indeed your belief?"
Neal Sher: "Israel's court determined that Demjanjuk was a guard at Sobibor. Considering the raison d'etre of this camp, I regard him as having been a participant in mass murder."
Peter MacKay (PC): What about your reference to "Imaginative techniques" to be used in applying to Canadian laws? They seem to suggest that the allegation that you did not reveal evidence in your possession may be true?"
Andrew Telegdi (Liberal): "Mr. Sher, Judge Gilbert Merritt who agreed to extradite Demjanjuk to Israel, said he would not have done so with (knowledge of) the complete evidence."
Paul de Villiera (Liberal): "Has action been taken against (the OSI) prosecutors?"
Neal Sher: "No."
Jack Ramsey: "Did not Judge Merritt suggest that Judge Wiseman's report was a whitewash?"
Neal Sher: "You may have concluded that he did; but there has been no judicial decision on this matter."
Jack Ramsey: "I am concerned that you are still holding to a belief that Mr. Demjanjuk is guilty of mass murder when no court has determined that he is guilty. When does presumption of innocence enter into this (mindset of yours)?
Neal Sher: "My conclusions follow those of the Israeli court that accepted as a historical fact that hundreds of Jews had been deliberately murdered in the death camps; and the court made a point of referring to "Watchman Demjanjuk" rather than "defendant" or "appellant" indicating a training to perform a certain way; i.e. as a murderer of Jews specifically.
Jack Ramsey: "We expect that in Israel the courts were likely to be tough on Demjanjuk. But from you we expect the presumption of innocence to be more apparent."
Neal Sher: "To serve in the "WACHMANN" means to be a mass murderer."
Jack Ramsey: "The counsel for Demjanjuk in Israel filed 85 documents with the Israeli court which supported the determination that Mr. Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible. A senior official of the Office of Professional Responsibility has indicated that Neal Sher is (also) under investigation for his conduct in the Artukovic case, involving allegations of:
(a) fraudulent use of false affidavits
(b) perjury on the part of Sher
Peter MacKay (PC) "Are you, Mr. Sher, in your capacity as consultant, concerned only with the pursuit of World War II criminals?"
Neal Sher: "Yes. Only with World War II criminals. . . As for my 'fire in the belly', remarks used by the media, this indicated my intention to be energetic in discharge in the duties of my office."
John Maloney (Liberal) addressing Mr. Sims: "Are you benefitting from the advice and help of Mr. Sher?"
Mr. Sims: "Yes. In many cases the (criminal organizations) involved are the same as those investigated by the OSI."
Conservative Member of Parliament, Peter McKay, a former Crown attorney: "It's a little shocking to think that somebody that is being relied on heavily by the Canadian government is himself under investigation for potential - and I key on the word potential - frauds perpetrated on the court.
Reform Member of Parliament, Jack Ramsey, even more strongly: "It comes as a bit of a disappointment that the Canadian government didn't do their research first and have that knowledge themselves. I think he should be paid for his advice and sent packing."
Thought for the Day:
Mr. Maloney: "How long will Mr. Sher be with us?"
Mr. Sims: "Many months."