The Government of Germany has announced it will be seeking the extradition of John Demjanjuk, who will face 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his role as a prison guard in the Sobibor Concentration Camp in 1943.
Demjanjuk, now 88, is a retired auto worker and today, lives in Cleveland. Israel filed an extradition request in 1983. He was tried in Israel after America extradited him in 1986, where he was charged with being the infamous Ivan the Terrible from Treblinka. The Jerusalem District Court in 1988 found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging. That ruling was overturned by Israel’s High Court of Justice in 1993, citing reasonable doubt.
Back in America, he spent several years battling charges and issues pertaining to his citizenship, as well as a Russian extradition request.
German officials plan to officially charge him once America complies with the extradition request.
The news of the pending indictment was praised by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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How ironic: Israel the Jewish nation frees this Nazi killer, and Germany prosecutes him.
Please Israeli supreme court, examine how you have strayed from His path, and return.