Accused
Nazi Camp Guard Seeks $5m CLEVELAND (AP) -
Alleged Nazi death camp
guard John Demjanjuk has filed a
lawsuit claiming the federal government's
investigation of him dating back to the
late 1970s is torture. The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S.
District Court, seeks at least $5 million
in damages from the Justice Department and
its Nazi-hunting Office of Special
Investigations, and asks that the case
against him be dismissed. Allegations being made against him
amount to "torture upon the person of John
Demjanjuk by harassing him and his
family," the counterclaim contends. The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk lost his
U.S. citizenship in 1981 then regained it
in 1998. In May, the Justice Department
filed a civil complaint seeking to revoke
the 79-year-old Demjanjuk's citizenship
again because he allegedly failed to
disclose a past as a guard at Nazi
concentration camps during World War
II. Demjanjuk's counterclaim alleges he
never assisted the Nazis. Demjanjuk has
said he was forced by the Nazis to work as
a laborer after being taken prisoner by
the Germans in May 1942. In 1988, the retired autoworker was
sentenced to die in Israel after being
convicted as the Treblinka death camp
guard "Ivan the Terrible." He was freed
five years later when evidence indicated
he was a victim of mistaken
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