John Demjanjuk was a former Nazi guard in the Sobibór extermination camp in the occupied Poland, convicted in Germany for assisting in the murder of 28,060 Jews. During World War II, he was drafted into the Soviet Red Army and became a German Prisoner Of War (POW). After undergoing special training, he became a camp guard. After the war was over, Demjanjuk changed his name from ‘Ivan’ to ‘John’ and became an American citizen. However, investigations proved that he had hidden information about his Nazi past to get the US citizenship. In spite of his steadfast denial of any involvement in the Nazi holocaust, 11 holocaust survivors identified him as ‘Ivan the Terrible’ who supplied gas to the Nazis. He was freed due to insufficient evidence and his citizenship was reinstated but he was again deported to Germany when the German federal court charged him with accessory to murder. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. However, Demjanjuk died before his appeal could be heard. This meant he was legally innocent and died as a free countryman. This was the first time in German legal history that a camp guard was tried even though there was no concrete evidence of him being involved in the genocide of Jews.