Alleged¹ Nazi² war criminal John Demjanjuk has been deported³ from the US on board a plane bound for Germany.

纳粹嫌疑战犯John Demjanjuk被驱逐出美国，踏上了飞往德国的飞机。

John Demjanjuk denies working as a death camp guard

The frail⁴（脆弱的，虚弱的） 89-year-old is due to face charges in Germany of being an accessory（附属） to the deaths of 29,000 Jews during World War II.

He denies accusations⁵（控告，指控） that he worked as a guard in the Sobibor Nazi death camp.

He says he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war.

The plane carrying John Demjanjuk took off from Cleveland airport on Monday evening.

US agents earlier arrived at his family home, removed Mr Demjanjuk in his wheelchair, and drove him to a federal building in Cleveland.

He has been fighting deportation⁶ since charges were levelled against him in March, arguing that he is too frail to be moved.

On Thursday, the US Supreme⁷ Court rejected a request by Mr Demjanjuk to intervene（干预，调停） in the case. One day later he was ordered to surrender to immigration authorities.

US federal agents briefly⁸ removed him from his home in April, but a stay of deportation was granted.

A three-judge panel from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals（巡回上诉法庭） in Ohio then ruled that the removal could go ahead, saying it was satisfied that Mr Demjanjuk would be provided with adequate care.

Citizenship⁹ stripped

Mr Demjanjuk arrived in the US in 1952 as a refugee, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in the car industry.

In 1988 he was sentenced to death in Israel for crimes against humanity after Holocaust¹⁰ survivors¹¹ identified him as the notorious（臭名昭著的） "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka death camp.

But Israel's highest court later overturned his sentence, after documents from the former Soviet¹² Union indicated that "Ivan the Terrible" had probably been a different man.

Mr Demjanjuk returned to the US, but in 2002 had his US citizenship stripped because of his failure to disclose（揭露） his work at Nazi camps when he first arrived as a refugee.

In 2005, a US immigration judge ruled that he could be deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine.

And in March 2009, German offiicals issued a warrant（正当理由，根据） for his arrest, accusing him of being an accessory in the deaths of 29,000 Jews.