The story of John Demjanjuk

John Demjanjuk was born in Ukraine in 1920. He was captured by the Germans in 1942 while serving in the Soviet Red Army.

He claims to have spent much of the war as a German POW. In 1952, he emigrated to the US, settling in Ohio and working as a car mechanic.

He was extradited to Israel in 1986 to face charges of being 'Ivan the Terrible', the notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp.

Two years later he was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sent to Israel's Ayalon Prison to await his death sentence by hanging.

But in 1993, his conviction was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court after evidence emerged showing that he was not 'Ivan the Terrible'.

He returned to the US despite objections from Jewish groups who said there was enough evidence to prove he was a Nazi death camp guard.

In 2002, a US court ruled there was evidence, including this wartime pass, placing Mr Demjanjuk as a guard at camps in Nazi-occupied Poland.

He denies the charges and questions the authenticity of the evidence, including the pass. He was stripped of his US citizenship and faced deportation.

He was taken to Munich in May 2009, six months after German prosecutors said they had evidence of his involvement in 29,000 deaths at Sobibor.

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