German office to investigate 50 alleged Auschwitz guards

Published on April 8, 2013

A Nazi crimes agency in Germany will launch an investigation of 50 alleged former Auschwitz guards living in the country.

German prosecutors say doctors did not hasten Demjanjuk’s death

Published on November 27, 2012

Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk's death was not hastened by medication administered at a nursing home in Bavaria, prosecutors said.

Appellate court rules against Demjanjuk

Published on June 29, 2012

A federal appeals court said that Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk’s U.S. citizenship cannot be posthumously restored.

Demjanjuk reportedly buried secretly in United States

Published on April 5, 2012

Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk reportedly was buried in secret in an undisclosed location in the United States.

Opinion: Demjanjuk’s just epitaph

By Tom Teicholz
Published on March 22, 2012

The recent death of John Demjanjuk, 91, in a nursing home in Germany, brings to a close one of the most extensive and most contested Nazi war crimes prosecutions in history, a process that began in the United States in the mid 1970s and was ongoing at the time of his death as Demjanjuk awaited the appeal of his conviction in Germany as an accessory to the more than 28,000 murders of Jewish men, women and children committed during the time he served as a camp guard at the Sobibor extermination camp.

Demjanjuk to be buried in the United States

Published on March 22, 2012

Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk will be buried near his home in suburban Cleveland.

John Demjanjuk, convicted of war crimes in Germany, dies stateless and in limbo

Published on March 19, 2012

Though the death last weekend of John Demjanjuk brought a close to the seemingly never-ending quest for justice in the case of a man long accused of being a Nazi war criminal, it also brought a premature end to the legal battle over his legacy.

Judge rejects Demjanjuk claim that documents withheld

Published on December 21, 2011

A federal judge in Cleveland rejected a claim by convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk that U.S. prosecutors withheld documents that could have helped his case.

Germany ready to prosecute last living Nazis

Published on October 5, 2011

Renewed efforts to prosecute the last living Nazi war criminals will be launched in Berlin this fall.

Attorneys file motion to return Demjanjuk to U.S.

Published on July 21, 2011

Public defenders filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Cleveland asking that convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk be allowed to return to the United States.

German court rejects Demjanjuk extradition request

Published on June 15, 2011

A German court denied a request to extradite John Demjanjuk to Spain to stand trial on charges of being an accessory to genocide and crimes against humanity. In denying the extradition request on June 9, the Munich court questioned Spain’s jurisdiction in the case and also noted that the evidence presented against Demjanjuk was incomplete.

Demjanjuk conviction hailed as long-awaited victory for justice

Published on May 16, 2011

The guilty verdict pronounced May 12 against John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom was a long time coming. Following a trial that lasted a year and a half -- capping more than three decades of legal drama -- the 91-year-old former Ohio autoworker is now officially recognized as a war criminal. He was found by the court to have been complicit in at least 27,900 murders at the Sobibor death camp, one of the most horrendous killing grounds in the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

Prosecutors appeal Demjanjuk’s release from jail

Published on May 16, 2011

Munich state prosecutors appealed a district court's decision to release convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk from prison pending his appeal. Monday's appeal of Demjanjuk's release, following his conviction on war crimes on May 12, also appealed the five-year sentence handed down that day for being too lenient. The prosecutors' reasons will be presented in writing and only then released to the public, according to a spokesperson for the Munich District II court, which found Demjanjuk, 91, guilty as an accessory to nearly 28,000 murders in the Nazi death camp Sobibor in occupied Poland in 1943.

John Demjanjuk found guilty of war crimes

Published on May 12, 2011

A Munich court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of war crimes, and sentenced the 91-year-old former autoworker to five years in prison.