Friday, May 13, 2011

Demjanjuk is released from prison in Munich after his conviction for Nazi crimes

Berlin. .- The Ukrainian John Demjanjuk was sentenced yesterday to five years in Munich cárcelpor complicity in the murder of 28,060 Jews during the Nazi, left prison today after ruling the judge for his release and while the Bavarian authorities will seek a home in Germany. Demjanjuk, 91, entered a Munich prison immediately after delivery by the U.S.

justice to Germany on May 12, 2009, and had since been remanded in custody. With the sentencing was opened for him an ambiguous term, since on the one hand, the sentence is not yet firm, his attorney announced that appeal and to its resolution may take another two years, and the other is not authorized to return to the U.S., where his family lives.

Sources from the penitentiary where he was admitted two years now said to be looking for a place to stay, is a shelter for the Ukrainian community or a charitable institution. Theoretically, Demjanjuk could have left yesterday Stadelheim prison, but was delayed on Friday given the position of the doomed.

Demjanjuk attended the whole process opened on November 30, 2009, in a wheelchair and under constant medical care. The convict, born in Ukraine in 1920, captured by the Nazis in 1942 being a Soviet soldier and become a volunteer guard, or "Trawniki" - the extermination camp of Sobibor (in occupied Poland), emigrated to the U.S.

in the 50 and acquired U.S. citizenship soon after. It was withdrawn, however, two and a half decades later, open them as the alleged summary "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka concentration camp, also in occupied Poland. Under this charge was given to the Israeli courts, which in 1988 was sentenced to death by hanging sentence was revoked after five years on death row to prove their identity was not for the Guardian known as "Ivan the Terrible ", which actually was one Ukrainian.

Was allowed to return to the U.S., but as stateless, since his wife and children lived there. His situation is now legal limbo, and that while his decision is not firm must follow in Germany and also has to be resolved, by the U.S., the request to return with his family, which can be refused to a conviction firm.

The judge of the Court of Munich, Ralph Alt, decided yesterday to his release soon after reading his statement in regard to their age and the fact that he spent two years in custody, nearly half of the sentence. The conviction was for "complicity in the Holocaust" and "participation in the Nazi extermination machine," because he can not attribute any particular case of murder in the 28,060 Jews killed at Sobibor in the six months that he served there.

The Sobibor camp was built exclusively for the extermination of Jews deported from Europe, who were killed in gas chambers within hours of their arrival.

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