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John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies
Mar 17th, 2012
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. (Source: Associated Press) -
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