Disagree Agree. Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. Would love your thoughts, please comment. John Demjanjuk, accused of being Ivan the Terrible, died in Find out his cause of death and where he was buried. Updated: Jan. Share on Facebook. Email This Link.
Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. He died in after legal battles that spanned 35 years. Most Read. Tornadoes leave path of destruction in several Northeast Ohio counties.
Akron family of toddler killed by pitbull shares their story. Holocaust experts have also linked the Sobibor guards to mass executions. Several former inmates of Sobibor gave evidence in the trial, but, as TIME reported, it was by then difficult to find living witnesses who could link him to specific deaths. Demjanjuk was eventually convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 27, Jews at Sobibor. Demjanjuk died in at the age of 91, while his final appeal against his conviction was still pending.
As there had been no ultimate conviction, Demjanjuk was presumed to be innocent when he died. So, though his original conviction solidified a legal strategy that would be used in Nazi trials going forward , his own story will remain unresolved. Write to Mahita Gajanan at mahita. By Mahita Gajanan. Get our History Newsletter. Put today's news in context and see highlights from the archives. Please enter a valid email address. Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now. His conviction was ultimately tossed out by the Israeli government, after new evidence surfaced that indicated Ivan the Terrible may have been a different Ukrainian national named Ivan Marchenko, according to the Times.
Demjanjuk returned to the U. That would be the last thing we would like. Demjanjuk, whose citizenship had been revoked by the U. He had been fighting the ruling in an appeals court at the time of his death. He was
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