[Washington Post] Craig Whitlock - German prosecutors Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for John Demjanjuk, 88, a native Ukrainian who immigrated to the U.S. in 1952, charging him with complicity in the murder of 29,000 people when he worked in 1943 as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor concentration camp. In 1986, the U.S. extradited him to Israel, where he was sentenced to death on charges that he had been a Nazi guard known as Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka concentration camp. But he was freed on appeal in 1993 after evidence emerged that investigators had confused him with another Ukrainian guard.
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