Nazi guard who killed 27,900 Jews convicted but then set free

A GERMAN court convicted John Demjanjuk for his role in the killing of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi death camp during the Holocaust, then set the 91-year-old free because of his age.

Holocaust survivors welcomed the Munich court’s verdict that Demjanjuk, who was exonerated in another war crimes case in Israel two decades ago, was an accessory to mass murder as a guard at Sobibor camp in Poland during World War II.

Demjanjuk showed no reaction as Judge Ralph Alt delivered the five-year jail sentence, and then said he would be released.