Germany accuses John Demjanjuk of having been a guard at a Nazi concentration camp. The 89-year-old lives here near Cleveland, Ohio in the United States. He was due to be deported to Germany to face charges of being an accessory in the killings of 29 000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp, which is now in Poland. A US immigration judge lifted the stay of deportation which had blocked Demjanjuk's departure. But he also ruled that lawyers for the retired automobile industry worker should have filed the request to reopen his case with the Board of Immigration Appeals instead. Demjanjuk's lawyers say he is too ill to travel. Demjanjuk has previously faced charges over his role in the Holocaust. He was stripped of his US citizenship and extradited to Israel. In 1988 a court there sentenced him to death after Holocaust survivors identified him as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously sadistic guard at Treblinka, where 870 000 people died. But Israel's highest court later overturned the conviction and ruled that Demjanjuk was not "Ivan". He returned to the United States - but US officials stripped him of his citizenship again in 2002, saying he'd worked at three other camps and hidden the information when he first came to the country. The Ukrainian native has denied any role in the Holocaust. He says he was drafted into the Russian army in 1941, became a German prisoner of war a year later, and served at German prison camps until 1944. Demjanjuk's lawyer in Germany says they are now ...
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