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In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II

In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II

Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)
🗓️ 18 April 1988

John Demjanjuk, was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being identified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by hanging in 1988. In 1993, the verdict was overturned. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany as an accessory to the 28,060 murders that occurred during his service at Sobibor.

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