Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in 1988 after being tried and convicted in Israel for war crimes. In 1993, the Israeli Supreme Court determined he was not the notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka in Poland, and he was sent home to Seven Hills in suburban Cleveland.
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Israel tried to convict this man and failed, and the fact that they provably had the wrong man called into question every other accusation Israel had made regarding Nazis.

So Israel came back after Demjanjuk again rather than risk the world doubting Israel's claims about the Holocaust. and now they want to try him again, convict him, and this time kill him.

And his crime? Did he actually kill Jews in the camps? No. Did he kill ANYONE in the camps? No.

He fed the dogs.

That's it.

Demjanjuk is accused of being an accessory to whatever supposedly happened at Sobibor because he fed the guard dogs!

And this is why Israel wants to haul him into court a second time, mere weeks after standing there with a straight face insisting that reports by Israel's own soldiers of war crimes committed in Gaza are "merely hearsay."

Israel may well exact their pound of flesh from Demjanjuk, but like operation CAST LEAD, this is going to turn into a public relations disaster.
An Ohio man with a reputed Nazi past is asking the United States to block his deportation to Germany, citing humanitarian reasons. John Demjanjuk made the request in a document filed Wednesday with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Demjanjuk, who turns 89 on Friday, is charged in an arrest warrant in Germany with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder while working as a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War II.

In the statement dated Tuesday, Demjanjuk tells ICE he is in poor physical condition and that being sent to Germany would be inappropriate and degrading treatment.

John Demjanjuk Jr. said Wednesday that his father's worsening health prompted the decision to contact U.S. immigration officials. He has said his father suffers from chronic kidney disease and other ailments.

"He doesn't understand all the details," Demjanjuk Jr. said. "He does understand that he's been ordered deported. He understands that Germany is considering accepting him and that they're saying they will arrest him and put him on trial again, like Israel did."

Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in 1988 after being tried and convicted in Israel for war crimes. In 1993, the Israeli Supreme Court determined he was not the notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka in Poland, and he was sent home to Seven Hills in suburban Cleveland.

The charges now place him as a guard at Sobibor during the war.

The ICE regional office in Detroit, which oversees deportation cases in Ohio, had no immediate response to Demjanjuk's request, ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls said.

Munich prosecutors, who are handling the case because Demjanjuk spent time at a refugee camp in the area after the war, were not available for comment. Germany's federal office that pursues Nazi-era crimes has said it believes there is enough evidence to charge him.

The case that led to an arrest warrant is based partly on recently obtained transport lists of Jewish prisoners who arrived by train at Sobibor during Demjanjuk's tenure at the camp from March 1943 to September 1943.

"I can't fathom how they will actually follow through with the plans we've heard about from Germany — getting him there and putting his through any legal proceeding. He can't get up out of a chair on his own. He can't walk on his own. He can't get up out of bed without gasping in pain," Demjanjuk Jr. said.

In a letter accompanying the filing, Demjanjuk's lawyer, John Broadley, confirmed that ICE recently fit his client with a GPS ankle band to monitor his whereabouts