Nazi Death Camp Guard Dead

From Yahoo:
"John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies"

John Demjanjuk, a retired U.S. autoworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining over three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died Saturday, his son told The Associated Press. He was 91. Demjanjuk, convicted in May of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison, died a free man in a nursing home in the southern Bavarian town of Bad Feilnbach. He had been released pending his appeal. His conviction helped set new German legal precedent, being the first time someone was convicted solely on the basis of serving as a camp guard, with no evidence of being involved in a specific killing. Presiding Judge Ralph Alt said the evidence showed Demjanjuk was a piece of the Nazis' "machinery of destruction."

^ I'm glad he is dead and only wish he was in prison at the time instead of a nursing home. The Germans let him free pending his appeal and I'm sure his age, but it is very clear that he was a guard at the Death Camp and so is guilty of helping to murder thousands upon thousands of innocent men, women and children. I hope the US doesn't allow his body back into the country- and since he was deported from here I don't think they will. His body should be burned just like his victims' were. I was surprised when the Germans actually did their job and convicted him since they tend to "over-look" or even help former Nazis and collaborators. It has only been in the past few years that the grandchildren who had nothing to do with the war have come into positions of importance and are now really starting to make ammends for the deeds of their ancestors. Of course by now most former Nazis and collaborators are either dead or in their 90s-100s (but no matter how old they should still be caught and tried.) The Nazis didn't exempt the elderly when they pushed people into the death pits or the gas chambers. This story is done and we won't have to hear any more lies from him or his family since he is now with his old guard buddies in Hell. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/john-demjanjuk-convicted-death-camp-guard-dies-121656724.html