Did John Demjanjuk finally admit that he was a Nazi guard at Sobibor?
SEVEN HILLS, Ohio (AP) — Possibly days away from his deportation to Germany, suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk and his family are offering no clues about the 89-year-old’s response to a government notice asking that he surrender to U.S. immigration authorities. All appeared quiet at Demjanjuk’s home in the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills as his wife tended to her lilac bush and an unidentified man visited Saturday, one day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers delivered the notice. It is the most recent development in a complex 32-year case linking Demjanjuk (pronounced dem-YAHN’-yuk) to World War II atrocities. An arrest warrant in Munich accuses the native Ukrainian of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder at Sobibor in Nazi-occupied Poland, one of the infamous, horrific sites of the Holocaust. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens had refused Thursday, without comment, to deal with the case. Demjanjuk’s son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said there are no plans to appeal to an
(CNN) — A Nazi war crimes suspect accused of involvement in the murder of thousands of civilians at a World War II death camp arrived in Germany on Tuesday after he was deported from the United States. Deported war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk is transported in an ambulance after his arrival in Germany. John Demjanjuk was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital after landing at Munich airport. An ambulance was also used to take the 89-year-old to a plane at airport in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday evening. Demjanjuk, a native Ukranian who has long claimed he was a prisoner of war rather than a death camp guard, is wanted in Germany for his alleged role in the murder of about 29,000 civilians at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Germany’s Jewish community welcomed his deporation. Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews, said his arrival was a warning to other World War II-era criminals. “All the living Nazi war criminals should know that there can be no mercy for
