Death Camp Suspect Extradited
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — A judge today ordered retired auto worker John Demjanjuk extradited to Israel to stand trial for war crimes he allegedly committed while serving as a Nazi death camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.”
U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti also ordered the immediate arrest of Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who allegedly served as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in Treblinka, Poland. The Demjanjuk case marks Israel’s first attempt to gain custody of a denaturalized U.S. citizen for a war crimes trial.
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