The Deutsche Welle (German) website reports today (May 12, 2011) that a Munich court -- which found Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk guilty of helping in the murder of 27,900 Jews during World War II -- has ordered that the 91-year-old be released from his five-year prison term due to his advanced age and ill health.
The German court also took into account the two years Demjanjuk spent in prison ahead of the lengthy trial, and added that he no longer posed a risk to society.
Prosecutors had called for Demjanjuk to serve six years for his role in the killings of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943.
The prosecution said the defendant had participated willingly in transporting death camp victims to the gas chambers.
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