A U.S. federal judge restored the American citizenship of John Demjanjuk, the retired auto worker cleared of charges that he was a notorious death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible. Demjanjuk, 77, was stripped of his citizenship in 1981 and extradited to Israel in 1986. He was convicted there of crimes against humanity in 1988 and sentenced to death. His conviction was overturned on appeal, and the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible and freed him after seven years in prison.
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