"But is there any point in trying this frail old man, whom, it could be argued, was a mere cog in the Nazi war machine? RNW's senior foreign affairs correspondent Bernard Hammelburg, who has a personal attachment to the trial, says yes."........The Nazi "machine" like most machines needs all of it's cogs to perform their functions in order for the machine to work. There were millions of cogs (humans) in the Nazi machine and they performed their duties or were shot for not doing so. In the case of John Demjanjuk, he was a minor clog (if a clog at all) and he had to make two choices: "Do as your told and continue to live or get execute for not do as he was told." { John Demjanjuk will be found guilty not because he is guilty but because he survived the war. He will be found guilty of hearsay evidence. Putting him in prison will not stop the emotional hurt of the victims and their families.