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A retired autoworker who supposedly worked as a guard in a Nazi death camp during WW2 has been deported to his native Ukraine to stand trail. I doubt we will see to many more cases like this. Interestingly enough an Israeli court already tried him once and found him not guilty due to lack of evidence.
An 85-year-old man accused of having been a guard at a Nazi death camp is to be deported from the US to his native Ukraine, an immigration judge has said.
John Demjanjuk lost his US citizenship in 2002 after a judge said there was proof he had worked at Nazi camps.
He has denied the allegations and his lawyers argued he would be tortured if sent back to Ukraine.
Mr Demjanjuk migrated to the US in 1951 and was briefly deported to Israel amid a 30-year legal battle over his past.
At the time, he was suspected of having been a notorious concentration camp guard, known by the nickname "Ivan the Terrible".
But his name was eventually cleared in an Israeli court and he was spared the death penalty.
He returned to the US and his citizenship - which he had lost for allegedly lying to US immigration officials - was restored.
However, in 2002, an immigration judge ruled that there was enough evidence to prove Mr Demjanjuk had been a guard at several Nazi death camps and again stripped him of his citizenship.
He lost an appeal against the decision in 2004.
'Shark tank'
Mr Demjanjuk now has 30 days to appeal against the latest order for his deportation.
US immigration judge Michael Creppy said there was no evidence to prove his claim that he would tortured if returned to the Ukraine.
Mr Demjanjuk's lawyer had argued that deporting him to Ukraine would be like throwing him "into a shark tank".
Mr Demjanjuk has always insisted he was a prisoner of war with the Nazis, rather than a guard serving under them.
But his 2002 trial found that he had been an armed guard at the Sobibor, Majdanek and Flossenburg concentration camps where tens of thousands of Jews were executed in gas chambers.
John Demjanjuk lost his US citizenship in 2002 after a judge said there was proof he had worked at Nazi camps.
He has denied the allegations and his lawyers argued he would be tortured if sent back to Ukraine.
Mr Demjanjuk migrated to the US in 1951 and was briefly deported to Israel amid a 30-year legal battle over his past.
At the time, he was suspected of having been a notorious concentration camp guard, known by the nickname "Ivan the Terrible".
But his name was eventually cleared in an Israeli court and he was spared the death penalty.
He returned to the US and his citizenship - which he had lost for allegedly lying to US immigration officials - was restored.
However, in 2002, an immigration judge ruled that there was enough evidence to prove Mr Demjanjuk had been a guard at several Nazi death camps and again stripped him of his citizenship.
He lost an appeal against the decision in 2004.
'Shark tank'
Mr Demjanjuk now has 30 days to appeal against the latest order for his deportation.
US immigration judge Michael Creppy said there was no evidence to prove his claim that he would tortured if returned to the Ukraine.
Mr Demjanjuk's lawyer had argued that deporting him to Ukraine would be like throwing him "into a shark tank".
Mr Demjanjuk has always insisted he was a prisoner of war with the Nazis, rather than a guard serving under them.
But his 2002 trial found that he had been an armed guard at the Sobibor, Majdanek and Flossenburg concentration camps where tens of thousands of Jews were executed in gas chambers.
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