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Son of Nazi death camp guard calls for investigation into 'medical execution'
John Demjanjuk was convicted over a year ago of helping to herd some 28,000 people into gas chambers at the Sobibor Camp in Poland in the early 1940s.
# World War II
Nazi camp guard dies aged 91 after being convicted of crimes last year
John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker in the US, had been charged with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder – one for every person who died at the concentration camp he was a guard at.
# nazi trial
Former death camp guard found guilty of helping Nazis to kill thousands
Trial of John Demjanjuk could not find specific evidence to show he killed Sobibor concentration camp victims – but proved that his work there showed he was an accessory to death.