Nazi death camp guard Demjanjuk dies at 91

John Demjanjuk, a retired United States carworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining during three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died today, his son said. He was 91.

Despite being convicted in May of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison, Demjanjuk died a free man in a nursing home in the southern Bavarian town of Bad Feilnbach, after being released pending his appeal.