NATION IN BRIEF : OHIO : Demjanjuk Evidence Withheld, Brief Says

Lawyers for John Demjanjuk, the accused Nazi death camp guard appealing a death sentence in Israel, argued Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice withheld evidence that could have prevented Demjanjuk’s 1986 extradition. In a 41-page brief filed at the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Demjanjuk’s lawyers said the U.S. government suppressed evidence that another man was the infamous Nazi prison guard “Ivan the Terrible,” who drove thousands of Jews into the gas chambers at the Treblinka concentration camp. The brief cited statements made by several former Soviet guards at the camp who identified photos of another Ukrainian, Ivan Marchenko, as the infamous Nazi. Demjanjuk was extradited in 1986 to face charges in Israel. He was given a death sentence in 1988.