Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk dies aged 91

After a lengthy trial, Demjanjuk was found guilty of all charges and sentenced
to death in 1988, only to be freed five years later when evidence surfaced
proving Israel had got the wrong man.

Demjanjuk flew back to his home in Seven Hills, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio,
in business class, hoping to put his past behind him.

But after evidence emerged that he served was a guard at other Nazi camps, he
was stripped of his US citizenship in 2002 for lying about his war record on
immigration forms and was deported from the United States to Germany in 2009
to face trial anew.

Demjanjuk has always denied being at any death camp.

He said he was captured by the Germans in 1942 while serving with the Red
Army, and was recruited to work as a guard in exchange for escaping the
camps himself.

Demjanjuk’s son John Demjanjuk Jr accused German prosecutors of ignoring the
facts.

“My dad is a survivor of the genocide famine in Ukraine, of the war fighting
the Nazis, of the Nazi POW camps … and now of Germany’s attempt to finish
the job left unfinished by Hitler’s real henchmen,” he said in an email to
the Associated Press at the time of the verdict.

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