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12 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 07:25 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder at least 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in World War II.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced to five years in prison, one year less than prosecutors had asked for.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the Ukraine-born Demjanjuk, 91, was a guard at Sobibor camp in Poland in 1943.<\/p>\n

Demjanjuk denied serving as a guard, saying that as a Soviet prisoner of war of the Nazis, he was a victim too.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Demjanjuk have said they will appeal the conviction.<\/p>\n

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It is not clear whether Demjanjuk, whose family says he is very ill, will get credit for time already served.<\/p>\n

He has been in custody since being extradited from the US in 2009.<\/p>\n

After the war Demjanjuk lived in the US, where he worked in an Ohio car factory, and became an American citizen.<\/p>\n

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Demjanjuk was said to have shown no reaction as the verdict was read out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Born in Ukraine in 1920, Demjanjuk grew up under Soviet rule.<\/p>\n

He was a soldier in the Red Army in 1942 when he was captured by the Germans.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors had argued he was recruited by the Germans to be an SS camp guard and that by working at a death camp he was a participant in the killings.<\/p>\n

It was the first time such a legal argument was made in a German court.<\/p>\n

“The court is convinced that the defendant… served as a guard at Sobibor from 27 March 1943 to mid-September 1943,” presiding Judge Ralph Alt said.<\/p>\n

“As guard he took part in the murder of at least 28,000 people,” he said.<\/p>\n

An estimated 250,000 people died in the gas chambers at Sobibor.<\/p>\n

Demjanjuk has already spent eight years in detention in Israel.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, an Israeli court identified him as “Ivan the Terrible”, a notoriously sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp, and sentenced him to death.<\/p>\n

His conviction was overturned after new evidence showed that another Ukrainian was probably responsible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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