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| A man who is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews in a Nazi camp has lost his latest appeal against deportation from the US. | A man who is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews in a Nazi camp has lost his latest appeal against deportation from the US. |
| Lawyers for John Demjanjuk, 89, argued he could not travel to face trial in Germany because of ill-health. | Lawyers for John Demjanjuk, 89, argued he could not travel to face trial in Germany because of ill-health. |
| But an immigration appeals board has rejected their arguments, paving the way for his deportation. | But an immigration appeals board has rejected their arguments, paving the way for his deportation. |
| Mr Demjanjuk, who denies any part in the killings, has been living in Cleveland, Ohio, for many years. | Mr Demjanjuk, who denies any part in the killings, has been living in Cleveland, Ohio, for many years. |
| In March, Germany issued an arrest warrant for the former car-plant worker over the deaths of thousands of Jews at the Sobibor camp in Poland during World War II. | |
| German authorities had initially expected him in the country earlier this month. | |
| But Mr Demjanjuk, who moved to the US in 1952, successfully appealed for an emergency stay of deportation. | |
| That stay was quickly overturned, sparking his latest appeal. | |
| And it is thought he will also appeal against the immigration board's latest decision. | |
| Numerous allegations | |
| Mr Demjanjuk says he was a prisoner of war of the Nazis rather than a prison guard. | |
| Allegations of involvement in war crimes have dogged the Ukraine-born Mr Demjanjuk for years. | |
| In the 1980s he was convicted in an Israeli court of being the notorious guard known as Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka camp, and sentenced to death. | |
| That conviction was eventually overturned and he was allowed back into the US. | |
| But in 2002 a US immigration judge ruled that there was enough evidence to prove Mr Demjanjuk had been a guard at several other Nazi death camps and stripped him of his citizenship. | |
| German authorities now say they have new evidence linking him to the crimes of which he has been accused. |