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Germany seeks extadition of Sobibor death camp guard. [65]
John Demjanjuk 88 A native of Ukraine has been charged by German prosecuters with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.
He was originally accused of being Ivan the Terrible but was released by Israel when it turned out to be someone else.
But why is he being persued by Germany if his alleged crimes were commited on Polish soil?
Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel in 1986, when the U.S. Justice Department believed he was the sadistic Nazi guard known as Ivan the Terrible from the Treblinka death camp.
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