Season 1 • Episode 1
Is he a grandfather from Cleveland or the matzo Ivan the terrible. War crimes from ww2 still being sought and prosecuted all these years later.
Survivors of Treblinka death camp testify against John Demjanjuk and accuse him of being Ivan the Terrible while his attorneys find ways to question the credibility of testimonies against him.
The defense tries to discredit crucial testimony of a Treblinka death camp survivor, challenges the genuineness of an ID card obtained from KGB records, and makes a startling discovery in a McDonald's trash dump.
Just as a much-awaited verdict is delivered, the fall of the Berlin Wall leads to release of new evidence from KGB, throwing a hard twist into the John Demjanjuk's trial.
The final verdict is delivered by the Supreme Court of Israel in John Demjanjuk's trial, but more twists await.