CLEVELAND, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The Justice Department said Friday it has asked an immigration judge to deport John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker and former SS camp guard.
The department did not specify a country for his final destination.
At one time Demjanjuk was accused of being the notorious guard "Ivan the Terrible," but was cleared by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993.
The department said Demjanjuk was an armed guard during World War II at the Nazi Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek concentration camp and Flossenbürg concentration camp.
In April, a federal appeals court upheld a judge's ruling revoking Demjanjuk's U.S. citizenship on multiple grounds, including his "willing" service in an SS-run unit "dedicated to exploiting and exterminating" Jewish civilians in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Some 250,000 men, women and children were murdered at Sobibor; at least 170,000 civilians died at the Madjanek concentration camp; and 30,000 civilians perished at Flossenbürg.
Demjanjuk, 84, immigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958.
