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...took a special brand of cruelty to stand out amid the horrors of the Holocaust, but "Ivan the Terrible" was no ordinary sadist. As a Nazi guard, Ivan earned his sobriquet by ushering thousands of prisoners - sometimes hacking them with a sword as they passed - into the gas chambers at Poland's Treblinka death camp. After the war, he vanished. Decades later, in the late 1970s, U.S. authorities fingered a suspect: John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker residing in a Cleveland suburb...
...period of diplomatic wrangling, Demjanjuk was extradited to Germany, where a German court charged the 89-year-old with being an accessory to at least 27,900 murders. The allegations stem not from Ivan the Terrible's reign at Treblinka but rather from Demjanjuk's alleged role as a guard at Sobibor, another Nazi death camp. On Nov. 30, the accused was wheeled into a Munich courtroom for the start of what could be the last major Nazi war-crimes trial...
...native Ukrainian, John (né Ivan) Demjanjuk has said he was conscripted into the Red Army in 1940 and captured by the Nazis in 1942. The following three years are up for debate. Prosecutors say he volunteered for the German SS and was trained as a camp guard. Substantial evidence places Demjanjuk at Nazi camps...
...Tay—the flashy point guard and catalyst of the Harvard offense—actually had a subpar effort by her standards, but gave an adequate summary of her career contributions in the final two scoring plays of the Crimson’s season...
...game, completing a 10-0 run in just over a minute to cut its deficit from 26 to 16. A jump shot from senior Katie Rollins got the scoring splurge started, and sophomore forward Claire Wheeler followed a St. John’s miss with a three-pointer. Sophomore guard Christine Matera stole the ensuing inbounds pass and sunk a shot of her own from beyond the mark. Sophomore Jackie Alemany then forced another Red Storm turnover and found Rollins, who made a two-point shot to bookend the stretch...