Agents pick up Nazi war crimes suspect

Apr 14th, 2009 - CNN

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John Demjanjuk, pictured at a 1993 Israel court hearing, is suffering from health problems, his attorney says.

They picked him up at his home in Cleveland, Ohio.

German authorities have accused Demjanjuk, 89, of involvement in killings at Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland, during World War II.

His deportation would close a chapter in one of the longest-running pursuits of an alleged Holocaust perpetrator. It also would set the stage for what likely would prove to be an extraordinary German war crimes trial.

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