John Demjanjuk, the former Nazi concentration camp guard accused of assisting in the murder of 29,000 people during World War II, was removed from his suburban Cleveland home today in a wheelchair and taken into federal custody—before a federal appeals court delayed his deportation to Germany. The retired auto worker’s case has roiled the Jewish community for decades: In 1977, he was extradited to Israel and sentenced to death before the Israeli Supreme Court overturned his conviction; in 2002, his U.S. citizenship was revoked. The family of Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1952, says chronic disorders and severe pain make him too weak to travel, but a former federal prosecutor who handled the case tells The Plain Dealer: “If we want to prevent future genocides, then we must prosecute those who commit the crime until their last dying day.”
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