Demjanjuk Gets Back Citizenship
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A federal judge in Cleveland restored the U.S. citizenship of John Demjanjuk, the retired auto worker cleared of being the Nazi death-camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. Demjanjuk, 77, was stripped of his citizenship in 1981 and extradited to Israel in 1986. He was convicted of crimes against humanity in 1988 and sentenced to death. His conviction was overturned on appeal. In 1993, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled he was not Ivan the Terrible and freed him.
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