September 3, 2010  Print Email | "Nazi Death Camp Guard" faces 29,000 charges
Demjanjuk says authorities have the wrong bloke (again)
Posted by Nick Farrell at 10:03 AM GMT on Mar 12, 2009 | A RETIRED Ohio car worker John Demjanjuk has been charged with being an accessory to more than 29,000 counts of murder.
 According to the Huffington Post, Demjanjuk has been identified as a guard in a Nazi death camp in Poland and a warrant was issued by a Munich court which wants his extradition.
His family says he is too sick to travel, but the US Justice department is sure that the 88-year-old was a Nazi guard who falsified information on his entry and citizenship applications in the 1950s.
His son, John Demjanjuk Jr, said there has never been any credible evidence of his personal involvement in even one murder, let alone thousands.
Demjanjuk claimed to have served in the Soviet army and became a prisoner of war when he was captured by Germany in 1942.
This is the second time that he has been arrested for war crimes. In 1986 he was dragged to Israel and was locked up for seven years after the US Justice Department claimed that he was a sadistic Nazi guard at the Treblinka death camp known as Ivan the Terrible. The US Justice Department renewed its case, saying he had indeed been a Nazi guard and could be deported for falsifying information on his US immigration paperwork.
It is likely that he will be sent to Germany for trial.
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