John Demjanjuk, Accused Nazi death camp guard, dies at 91

John Demjanjuk, a man dogged by debates about his identity as a possible World War II war criminal, died on March 17 in a nursing home in southern Germany.
Born Ivan Demjanjuk in Ukraine on April 3 1920, Demjanjuk joined the Red Army and was captured by German forces in eastern Crimea in 1942, according to the BBC. His activities after that point remain debated. He moved to Cleveland after the war, becoming a naturalized citizen and working as an auto mechanic.
In 1985, Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel to stand trial for war crimes after evidence came to light that he might be 'Ivan the Terrible,' an infamous guard at the death camp in Treblinka. Convicted in 1988 by Israeli courts, the verdict was quashed in 1993 after new evidence pointed to another Ukrainian man as the real guard in question,.
Regaining his citizenship, Demjanjuk returned to the United States, only to be charged again in 2009 by a Munich court. Convicted in 2011, Demjanjuk's family maintains his innocence.
"[Demjanjuk died] a victim and a survivor of Soviet and German brutality," his son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said. " History will show Germany used him as a scapegoat to blame helpless Ukrainian P.O.W.'s for the deeds of Nazi Germans."