Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk, 91, no longer dangerous - German

BERLIN, July 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Former Soviet prisoner of war John
(Ivan) Demjanjuk, accused of involvement in the Holocaust, is no more
dangerous, as he is kept under supervision at a home for the aged and
disabled, the prosecutor's office of the southern German city of Munich
said.
Earlier, the prosecutor's office protested a court decision to release
Demjanjuk from detention on health grounds and because of old age. On
Friday the prosecutors withdrew the appeal.
A native of Ukraine, 91-year-old Ivan Demjanjuk after accusations of
complicity in the Holocaust was stripped of U.S. citizenship and
extradited to Germany in 2009. The West German prosecutor's office
demanded a six-year prison term for Demjanjuk. In May this year the Munich
court sentenced him to five years in prison for involvement in the murder
of more than 28 thousand of Jews in the Sobibor concentration camp in
German-occupied Poland during World War II.
Demjanjuk, who was on top of the list of wanted Nazi war criminals,
had been drafted into the Soviet army in 1941. When taken prisoner, he
defected to the Nazis and became a guard at a concentration camp. Two
decades ago, Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in Israel, where he had been
extradited from the United States in 1986 on the suspicion that he was the
notorious sadist guard from the concentration camp at Treblinka in Poland
nicknamed Ivan the Terrible. In 1993 the Israeli Supreme Court overturned
the verdict, finding that Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible, although he
had been identified as such by 18 witnesses.