to the airport, where he was deported by airplane to Germany. He arrived there the next morning on May 12.  On July 13, 2009, Demjanjuk was formally charged with 27,900 counts of acting as an accessory to murder, one for each person who died at Sobibor during the time he is accused of serving as a guard at the Nazi death camp. On November 30, 2009, Demjanjuk’s trial began in Munich.

On May 12, 2011, Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. According to his-torian Lawrence Douglas, in spite of serious missteps along the way, the German verdict brought the case “to a worthy and just conclusion.” After the conviction, Demjanjuk was released pending appeal. He lived at a German nursing home in Bad Feilnbach, where he died on March 17, 2012 at the age of 91, two weeks s...

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