German arrest warrant for 'Ivan the Terrible' NaziA German court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for John Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Demjanjuk on 3 April, 1920[1] in Dubovye Makharintsy, Kiev Oblast, USSR), is a retired auto worker who emigrated to the United States from Europe in 1951. , 88, the alleged Nazi war criminal "Ivan the Terrible Ivan the Terrible: see Ivan IV. Ivan the Terrible (1533–1584) his reign was characterized by murder and terror. [Russ. Hist.: EB, 9: 1179–1180] See : Ruthlessness " suspected of killing thousands of Jews in World War II death camps. The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk has lived in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. since 1952 though he has already been tried in Israel for war crimes. "The accused is currently still in the United States," a court official said in a statement released in Munich. "As soon as he arrives in Germany he will be questioned and tried." Demjanjuk is now accused of taking part in the deaths of at least 29,000 Jews when he was a guard at the Sobibor Nazi concentration camp in what is now Poland from March until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links 1943, the German prosecutor said in a statement. The new German inquiry has been carried out by the Central Investigation Centre for Nazi Crimes. Demjanjuk has been fighting notoriety since 1977 when former inmates at the Treblinka death camp identified Demjanjuk as "Ivan the Terrible" as part of a US Justice Department investigation. He was extradited from the United States to Israel in 1986 and a court there sentenced him to death in 1988. He was released in August 1993 when the case collapsed after statements by former guards assembled by the Soviet KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. identified another man, Ivan Marchenko, as being "Ivan the Terrible". Demjanjuk then returned to Cleveland, Ohio "Cleveland" redirects here. For the Cleveland metropolitan area, see . For other uses, see Cleveland (disambiguation). Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. even though his US nationality had been taken from him for lying about his wartime activities. He has lived under near house arrest since his return and faced other investigations in the United States. The case against him was revived in 1999 after new evidence emerged that he had worked as a guard at three other Nazi death camps. US investigators brought together witness accounts which described how Demjanjuk was seen at Sobibor, kicking Jews or hitting them with his rifle butt to get them out of railway wagons more quickly. Demjanjuk is still on a Simon Wiesenthal Center  This article is currently semi-protected to prevent sock puppets of currently blocked or banned users from editing it. list of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive.
A German justice ministry spokesman told a press conference that Germany now has two ways to pursue the case. "Either Demjanjuk is expelled by the United States, he arrives in Germany and the arrest warrant is carried out," or an extradition request is made. 
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