Jewish Telegraph Agency | 11May2009 | JTA
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/11/1005055/germany-says-demjanjuk-to-arrive-soon

Demjanjuk deported

[J.S. comment: JTA=Jewish Telegraphic Agency  distorts history (so what else is new) by implying that they had proved that he was a guard at Sobibor but let him go because they had already imprisoned him for 7 years and that was a fitting punishment for being a Sobibor guard.  They NEVER proved nor said anything like that at the time they released him (not on a technicality) because they couldn't prove ANYTHING of the sort despite hundreds of Jewish volunteers from all over the world who openly stated they would testify to anything just so that he wouldn't be released!  Just read back issues of newspapers from the three week period he was held AFTER the Treblinka charges were dropped!  How pathetic and shameful this rewrite of history is!]

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- U.S. authorities deported Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk.
The retired auto worker, 89, was taken in an ambulance on Monday from his Cleveland-area home to nearby U.S. Immigration offices.

Immigration officials later accompanied him on board a plane bound for Germany.

On Friday, immigration officials delivered a notice to the Demjanjuk family home ordering Demjanjuk to surrender to U.S. authorities for deportation to Germany.

A warrant for Demjanjuk's arrest issued in Munich accuses him of being an accessory to murder in the deaths of 29,000 people in the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected without comment an appeal by Demjanjuk to stop his deportation. Demjanjuk had appealed the deportation, citing frailty.

U.S. Justice Department officials, who had successfully stripped Demjanjuk of his U.S. citizenship because he had lied about his Nazi past, released video in recent days showing Demjanjuk in good health.

Demjanjuk in 1986 was sent to Israel, where he was convicted and sentenced to death for being the notorious “Ivan the terrible” death guard at Treblinka. Israeli prosecutors later cleared him of those charges after uncovering evidence that “Ivan” was another man.

Israel’s Supreme Court said the evidence nonetheless proved that Demjanjuk had worked as a guard at Sobibor, but released him in 1993 because the seven years he had spent in jail were equivalent to the sentence he would have served for the lesser crime. He returned to the Cleveland area, where U.S. authorities launched proceedings to strip him of his citizenship.“Ivan the terrible” death guard at Treblinka. Israeli prosecutors later cleared him of those charges after uncovering evidence that “Ivan” was another man.

Israel’s Supreme Court said the evidence nonetheless proved that Demjanjuk had worked as a guard at Sobibor, but released him in 1993 because the seven years he had spent in jail were equivalent to the sentence he would have served for the lesser crime. He returned to the Cleveland area, where U.S. authorities launched proceedings to strip him of his citizenship.