CLEVELAND (AP) — Federal prosecutors want to block a move to restore U.S. citizenship to a man deported to Germany and convicted on Nazi war crimes charges.
In a Cleveland federal court filing Tuesday night, prosecutors said it was brazen for retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk to cast himself as a victim following his May 12 conviction in Germany on over 28,000 counts of accessory to murder.
Demjanjuk’s attorneys charge that the government failed to disclose important evidence, namely a 1985 secret FBI report uncovered by The Associated Press.
It indicates the FBI believed a Nazi ID card purportedly showing Demjanjuk served as a death camp guard was a Soviet-made fake.
Demjanjuk, who’s 91, was sentenced to five years in prison.
