PART I

The new Netflix documentary series titled ‘The Devil Next Door” should more aptly have been called “The Trial,” for the story of John Demjanjuk has more to do with Franz Kafka and his world of bizarre predicaments, incomprehensible bureaucracies and surrealistic outcomes than any semblance of law and justice. It is the story of government abuse in the United States driven by obsessed prosecutors and an Israeli legal system hell bent on using Demjanjuk to educate its young about the horrors of the Holocaust. The viewer is left with the feeling that no one is safe when governments prosecute an individual for reasons other than seeking the truth and justice.