Germany's top Holocaust crimes prosecutor wants to apply for the extradition of John Demjanjuk, 88, to Germany from the US. The Ukrainian-born man was allegedly a brutal guard at the Nazi death camp Treblinka. Demjanjuk was acquitted by an Israeli court in 1993, but German prosecutor Kurt Schrimm said he was confident he could win a conviction in a court in Ludwigsburg.
Schrimm, who heads Germany's special office for prosecuting Holocaust crimes, said, "Our view is that a conviction can be attained under German criminal law." Demjanjuk asserts he served with a Nazi unit in Ukraine but not at the extermination camp. Demjanjuk emigrated to the United States in 1951 and has recently had his US citizenship revoked. However, no country has so far offered to take him in.
