What is john demjanjuk?

John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian-American accused of war crimes during World War II. He was born in Ukraine in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1952, where he became a naturalized citizen and worked as a mechanic in Ohio.

In 1977, he was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a notorious Nazi guard at the Treblinka concentration camp in Poland who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Demjanjuk denied the accusation and claimed that he had been a prisoner of war in Germany during the war.

After a lengthy legal battle, Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel in 1986 to stand trial for war crimes. Despite his protestations of innocence, he was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to death. The conviction was later overturned when evidence emerged that Demjanjuk was not, in fact, "Ivan the Terrible."

Demjanjuk was later accused of being a guard at other concentration camps, including Sobibor and Majdanek, and was deported to Germany in 2009 to face trial again. He died in a nursing home in Germany in 2012, before a verdict was handed down.