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John Demjanjuk in 2006 - (AP Photo/Plain Dealer, C.H. Pete Copeland, File)

Even at the age of 89, one of the last Nazi death camp guard stands trial for the murder of 28,000 Jews. John Demjanjuk, a retired U.S. autoworker denies any wrong doing, denies any part in the Holocaust, and has less than a year and a half to live due to an incurable disease.

Demjanjuk had a crazy life to say the least. He got his U.S. Citizenship after the war which was revoked in 1970 on suspicion that he was “Ivan the terrible”,  a notoriously evil guard at the Sobibor Extermination camp.  He got deported to Israel out of all places, I wonder why they deported a Jew killer to Israel.

Naturally, he was sentenced to death in Israel in 1988, but that decision was overturned by Israel Supreme Court on suspicion that he was not “Ivan”. Guess what, he regained his U.S. Citizenship again in the early 90’s, only to get it revoked again in 2002 on evidence showing he concealed his services at various death camps. He was ordered to be deported to Germany in 2005.

Now, at the age of 89, he is suffering from an incurable leukemic bone marrow disease with maybe year and half to live. But why shouldn’t justice be served to an old dying man. If he really killed anyone, then he deserves the pain of a trial and its consequences even at this age.

“With less than a year and a half for my father to live, a career seeking German prosecutor is hastily pressing forward with a 100 percent politically-motivated effort to blame Ukrainians and Europeans for the crimes of the Germans,” said John Demjanjuk Jr.

Demanjuk Service ID from March 1993 - EPA

Demjanjuk claims that he was a Red Army soldier who spent his time as a prisoner of war at the German camps and never hurt anyone. He then became a camp guard under the German army. Most of the Soviet POWs, before they were sent as guards to the concentration camps, had undergone a special training in Trawniki. Demjanjuk admits working as a guard at the Trawniki camp but not Sobibor. However, U.S. Justice department was able to get their hands on some Nazi-era documents which include a photo ID identifying Demjanjuk as a guard at Sobibor, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland.

It is estimated that more than 250,000 people were killed at the Sobibor camp. Prisoners, mostly Jews arrived in trains and were told they were in a transit camp. They were forced to undress and led along the 100 meter long so called “Road to Heaven”, which led straight to the gas chambers where they were locked in and killed using carbon monoxide released from the exhaust pipes of tanks.

Currently John Demjanjuk is in a German prison awaiting trial but his fate is quiet clear.