THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: John Demjanjuk, the Nazi prison camp guard convicted of the murder of 27,900 Jews, has died in a German nursing home.
The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was found guilty of accessory to murder in May 2011, in what was billed as Germany's last major war crimes trial.
He was a guard at the Sobobor [sic] camp in Poland where more than 27,000 people died during World War II.
The Munich trial, which lasted 18 months, was not the first for the burly and bespectacled Demjanjuk who emigrated to the United States after the war.
In 1986, he stood trial in Jerusalem accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," an infamous Ukrainian guard at another death camp, Treblinka.
Even in Treblinka, where beatings, gassing and torture were part of the daily routine, "Ivan the Terrible" stood out for his perverse sadism. » | Saturday, March 17, 2012
