The Nation - News from Feb. 27, 1986
An accused Nazi war criminal charged with operating the gas chamber at a Polish death camp during World War II was in New York awaiting extradition to Israel, U.S. officials said. State Department spokesman John Russell said John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland auto worker who has been identified by death camp survivors and U.S. prosecutors as the notorious “Ivan the Terrible,” will be taken out of the country shortly. If found guilty of the charges, Demjanjuk faces execution.
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