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RZM

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Mon Mar 19, 2012, 09:13 PM Mar 2012

Accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk dies at 91 [View all]

CLEVELAND — Former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk died Saturday (March 17) in Germany, ending nearly 35 years of legal battles with officials in three countries who claimed he was a guard in a Nazi death camp. He was 91.

During his decades-long trials, Demjanjuk was imprisoned in the United States, sentenced to death in Israel — until its highest court freed him — and, last May, convicted in Germany for serving as an accessory in the deaths of more than 28,000 people at a death camp.

A German court sentenced Demjanjuk to five years in prison but he was freed while he appealed the conviction.

Demjanjuk had been living in a nursing home in Bad Feilnbach in southern Germany, according to The Associated Press. He died nearly three years after being taken from his home in suburban Cleveland and flown overseas.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/accused-nazi-guard-john-demjanjuk-dies-at-91/2012/03/19/gIQATV2jNS_story.html

The fate of Ukraine and Ukrainians in WWII is an interesting and sad story. On the one hand, many Ukrainian nationalists were perpetrators in the Holocaust. On the other hand, Ukrainians were caught between a German hammer and Soviet anvil (and before the war, the Polish state as well, where millions of Ukrainians lived). The terror famine in the 1930s turned many Ukrainians against the Soviets. Many also served in the Red Army during the war. Millions of Ukrainian civilians died under German occupation as well.
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