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Demjanjuk charged 29,000 times over murders at Nazi camp
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, Holocaust 

German authorities said Wednesday they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.

Demjanjuk is accused of participating in the murders while he was a guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland between March and September 1943.

The 88-year-old who lives in a Cleveland suburb denies involvement.
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The Munich prosecutor's office, which is handling the case because Demjanjuk spent time at a refugee camp in the area after the war, said Wednesday it was working on the extradition request with the German government.

In 1988, Demjanjuk was convicted in Israel of being "Ivan the Terrible," a notoriously sadistic guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. The High Court of Justice overturned his conviction after a document emerged revealing that Demjanjuk had served as a camp guard in Sobibor rather than Treblinka.

U.S. authorities have been seeking to deport Demjanjuk.



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      1.   Crimes Caught Up With Ivan 20:58  |  Baruch Gold 11/03/09
      2.   US has been trying to deport him for 20 years 22:36  |  Lynn 11/03/09
      3.   29,000 22:50  |  Anthony 11/03/09
      4.   Proud in the judicial system 00:40  |  db 12/03/09
      5.   Please, some tiny measure of justice finally ! 00:49  |  Fortuna Benmayor 12/03/09
      6.   Thanks, Germany, one of Israel`s best friend and certainly its... 02:22  |  Jehudah Ben-Israel 12/03/09
      7.   I believe this is a blaming campaign 03:21  |  Chaim Lehman 12/03/09
      8.   88 years old and still going 04:14  |  Marvin Gaye 12/03/09
      9.   #7. YOUR ARE CORRECT.THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BECOME 12:41  |  sj 12/03/09
      10.   # 7 I believe this is justice not blaming 15:25  |  petra 12/03/09
      11.   # 6 short memory, Dude. 15:27  |  petra 12/03/09
      12.   # 8 Marvin Gaye? Didn`t he die? His father shot him. 15:31  |  Ella Fitzgerald 12/03/09
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