The US government is preparing to deport suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk to Germany. Immigration officials said that the US authorities were in touch with the government of Germany to get the travel documents needed to extradite Demjanjuk there. He is wanted by a Munich court on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews during World War II.
A retired autoworker from a suburb of Cleveland, Demjanjuk was accused in the early 1980s of being the notorious guard "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp. He was jailed in Israel for seven years but was released when, during the appeals process, he could not be identified as "Ivan" beyond a reasonable doubt. The US Justice Department later reported that Demjanjuk had been a guard at Sobibor, and last year the Supreme Court ruled he was eligible for deportation because he lied about his Nazi past to obtain US citizenship.
