John Demjanjuk
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John Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker in
Cleveland,
Ohio, was accused of being the legendary "Ivan the Terrible" in the
Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted of
war crimes in 1986. In 1993, the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Demjanjuk was a victim of
prosecutorial misconduct, as
federal prosecutors had deliberately withheld
evidence) and his
sentence was overturned. In the meantime, Demjanjuk had been stripped of his
citizenship and been extradited to
Israel; from which he returned following an acquittal decision by the Supreme Court of Israel on July 29, 1993.
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