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World Jewish News
Demjanjuk wants deportation to Germany halted on health grounds
02.04.2009
The Nazi collaborator and former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk, 89, who was stripped of his US citizenship and is due to face trial in Munich for accessory to murder in 29,000 cases, has asked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for his deportation to be suspended on humanitarian grounds. Demjanjuk is wanted in Germany, and US authorities are expected to hand him over soon. In the statement, Demjanjuk told ICE he was in poor physical condition and that being sent to Germany would be an inappropriate and degrading treatment. His son said his father suffered from chronic kidney disease and other ailments.
In Israel, Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in 1988 after being tried and convicted for war crimes. In 1993, the Israeli Supreme Court determined he was not the notorious Nazi death camp guard ‘Ivan the Terrible’ at Treblinka death camp and he was sent home to Cleveland, Ohio. There is now evidence that Demjanjuk was a camp guard at Sobibor during the World War II.
Источник: WJC
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