Convicted Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk dies


BERLIN (AP) -- German police say John Demjanjuk, who was convicted last year of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, has died.

Rosenheim police official Kilian Steger told The Associated Press that the 91-year-old died Saturday at a home for the elderly in southern Germany where he has been staying since his trial ended in Munich last year.





The case was viewed as one of the last -- if not the last -- major Nazi crimes trial. It also represented the first time someone was convicted in Germany on the basis only of having been a guard, without evidence of a specific killing.


The Munich court found that he had agreed to serve the Nazis as a guard at Sobibor. Demjanjuk had consistently rejected the allegation, insisting he never served as a guard anywhere and was held in German camps himself for much of the war.