John Demjanjuk: Camp Guard

Germany Dept: The conviction of the retired Ohio autoworker in a Munich court in May on 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder, which was still being appealed, broke new legal ground in Germany as the first time someone was convicted solely on the basis of serving as a camp guard, with no evidence of involvement in a specific killing, according to CTV. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk steadfastly maintained that he had been mistaken for someone else -- first wounded as a Soviet soldier fighting German forces, then captured and held as a prisoner of war under brutal conditions and bERLIN John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name -- a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 -- made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions. It has opened the floodgates to hundreds of new investigations in Germany, though his death serves as a reminder that time is running out for prosecutors. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.