John Demjanjuk

摘要

Thirty-five years ago, John Demjanjuk was a retired autoworker who had raised three children in the Seven Hills suburb of Cleveland. When he died March 17, the 91-year-old was in a German nursing home. Demjanjuk was awaiting an appeal of his conviction for aiding one of the greatest atrocities in history. In 1977 evidence emerged that Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian immigrant, had served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard, committing barbaric acts that earned him the nickname "Ivan the Terrible." He was stripped of his American citizenship, extradited to Israel and sentenced to death.