Demjanjuk. To stand trial
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Demjanjuk's stay of deportation appeal denied
Immigration appeals board rules former Nazi guard must be deported to Germany to stand trial
An immigration appeals board has denied an emergency stay of deportation requested by John Demjanjuk, who faces charges in Germany that he served as a Nazi death camp guard.
The Friday ruling makes it likely the 89-year-old suburban Cleveland man will soon be sent to face a German warrant claiming he was an accessory to thousands of deaths during World War II.
Demjanjuk filed a motion to the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Virginia, saying that he can't travel due to poor health.
He was sentenced to death in Israel in 1988 for being a sadistic guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka where 870,000 died. The High Court of Justice later ruled he was not "Ivan" and he returned to the United States.
But US officials in 2002 stripped him of his citizenship, saying that he had worked at three other camps and hid that information at his US entry in 1951.
He was ordered deported in December 2006, but remained in the country through legal challenges and because there were no demands from other countries that he be sent to them.
Last year, Germany's chief Nazi war crimes investigator, Kurt Schrimm, asked prosecutors in Munich, where Demjanjuk lived before he emigrated to the United States, to charge him with involvement in the murder of 29,000 Jews.
In March Munich prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Demjanjuk and asked the United States to deport him so he could stand trial.
Reuters contributed to this report
