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While Reimer maintained that he mainly served as an office adminis- trator in charge of distributing pay- roll to the Ukrainians, the prosecu- tion's main witness said it would have been impossible for Reimer to have remained unaware of the mur- ders. "As soon as the death camps were up and running, Sobibor in May 1942 and Treblinka in July 1942, Trawniki men brought back takes of what they saw there," said Charles Sydnor, a historian specializing in the Nazi era. Memory propelled many of the several dozen spectators to the grand cherry-wood and bronze-decorated courtroom each day. Many were elderly. Some were survivors themselves of Nazi per- secution. Some, like Bernie Alexander, were young. The 29-year-old, middle-school guid- ance counselor, who wears a black kipah and lives in Queens, was the only spectator who attended the trial every day. "I felt it was important to go to show that even people of my genera- tion are not forgetting," he said in an interview in the courthouse cafe- teria, as Reimer and Clark ate their lunch just two tables away. For the prosecution too, the core issue has been memory — and the importance of not forgetting that within the vastness of the murder of 6 million Jews lie the specific crimi- nal acts that made it possible. The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations has tried 107 Nazis and their collabora- tors — stripping 59 of their citizen- ship — since its creation in 1979. The current memory of defendants is important, but the Nazi-hunting unit does not rely on it alone. OSI's 10 attorneys and seven staff historians piece together history as they work. It is put into place one document at a time as papers are culled from the depths of archives in the former Soviet Union and Germany, and from testimony in other Nazis' trials in the United States and those coun- tries over the last 35 years. They also travel great distances to add additional small pieces to the mosaic. In Reimer's case, the lead prosecu tor, Edward Stutman, and an OSI historian journeyed to the Ural Mountains to interview another for- mer Trawniki guard who, in a 1964 Soviet war crimes trial, testified that Reimer had led his troop on a killing mission near Lublin in which 250 Jews died. In his ordinariness — then, as a handsome man in his 20s and now, as a somewhat wizened man of 79, whose thick brown hair has turned white — Reimer and his story are remarkable. As an ethnic German, born to German parents and raised speaking German alone, his ability to translate between Russian and German made him valuable to the Trawniki guards. Reimer was pro- moted to the highest rank that a Ukranian could achieve, Sydnor tes- tified. The Nazis also rewarded him with two medals, one for bravery, which was not often done for Trawniki men, he said. By his own admission, Reimer trained a company of Ukranian recruits, teaching them basic German military commands. But the prosecution said he also taught them how to shoot. In a sworn interview with OSI officials in May 1992, Reimer admitted shooting a Jewish man in the winter of 1941-1942. The man was nearly buried by 40 to 60 corpses in a pit just outside the Trawniki training camp, near Lublin. • In that interview, Reimer said he had overslept that day. When he came late to it, he saw the man pointing to his head, and, at close range, "finished him off." In a 1997 deposition, Reimer said he had shot over the pit of dead bodies in order not to hit anyone. But on the stand recently, his recol- lection seemed to shift once again. "I don't know why it comes into my head that somebody moved or pointed to his head. It's possible" that someone did, Reimer testified. El The core issue in the Reimer trial has been memory.