April 3, 1920 - John Demjanjuk
His case became one of the most legally complex war crimes prosecutions of the late twentieth century, spanning decades, multiple continents, and competing identities. A Soviet prisoner of war who became a Trawniki-trained collaborator, he served at sites where mass killing was the explicit function — not incidental to operations, but the entire purpose. His 2011 conviction in Germany, based on accessory liability for the killings at Sobibór, set a significant legal precedent by establishing that service at an extermination camp was itself sufficient grounds for prosecution, regardless of direct evidence of individual acts.
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John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk 3 April 1920 – 17 March 2012), was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being identified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. Demjanjuk was sentenced to death by hanging in 1988. In 1993, the verdict was overturned. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany as an accessory to the 28,060 murders that occurred during his service at Sobibor.
Born in Soviet Ukraine, Demjanjuk was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940. He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans in spring 1942, becoming a Trawniki collaborator. After training, he served at Sobibor extermination camp and at least two concentration camps.
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