Demjanjuk was dogged for many years and accused of being a guard at the Nazi's Sorbibor Death Camp and was convicted in May of last year on 28,060 counts of Accessory to Murder. He was out awaiting appeal when he passed away at a nursing home in Southern Baveria according to reports.

Demjanjuk was born in 1920 in a village in the Ukraine. He was drafted into the Russian Army in 1941. His tour was cut short a year later when he was wounded and captured by the Germans in the Crimea. He was later recruited by Germany and sent to Trawniki Concentration Camp and trained as a prison guard. He served later as a guard at the Majdanek,Sorbibor and Flossenburg camps.

For 30 years, Demjanjuk denied being the man accused by many holocaust victims as a death camp prison guard. Instead, he claimed to be a prisoner of war from the Ukraine who made his way to the United States after World War II.

The Justice Department stripped him of his citizenship in 1981. He was then deported to Israel where he stood trial in 1988 and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. His conviction was overturned five years later by the Israeli Supreme Court, when new evidence was found of another man who perhaps was the notorious “Ivan the Terrible.”

Inconsistancies with the damning evidence against him were also discovered. Names and stamps on his identity card supposedly issued to him by the Nazis were found to be manufactured by Soviet authorities. Also, statements turned over after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed written statements from guards from Germany that the man identified as “Ivan the Terrible,” was in fact another man named Ivan Marchenko. This would have cleared Demjanjuk, if he had not used this name as his mother’s maiden name when applying for a U.S. Visa.

The United States re-instated his citizenship in light of this new evidence, and he returned to his home in Cleveland in 1993. But, the regaining of his citizenship wasn’t lasting. More evidence was connected to Demjanjuk in 1999.

He would stand trial on this new evidence in 2001. This time he was charged on allegations that he had served as a prison guard in the three death camps as well as being a member of the SS unit that took part in the capture of 2 million Jews in Poland, and when he could not supply credible evidence of his whereabouts during the time in question, he was convicted. In 2005, the United States would once again strip him of his citizenship. But, Demjanjuk would remain in the U.S. until 2009 because no country would take him.

In 2008 Germany announced that they would seek extradition of Demjanjuk, and in May of 2009, after his final stays of deportation were overturned, he was deported to Germany to stand trial. Suffering from bone disease by that time, Demjanjuk was taken from his home in a wheelchair and transported to a waiting plane by ambulance.