Post date: Mar 17, 2012 2:6:38 PM
MUNICH, GERMANY (REUTERS) - John Demjanjuk, convicted last year for his role in killing 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp during World War Two, died on Saturday (March 17) aged 91 in a care home in southern Germany, a police spokesman said.
A Munich court convicted Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk in May 2011 of helping to kill the Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. He was sentenced to five years in prison but freed because of his age.
Demjanjuk had been extradited from the United States in 2009.
Former Nazi guard, John Demjanjuk, who was convicted in 2011 for his role in killing 28,000 Jews during World War Two, dies aged 91.