An 89 year old retired autoworker from Ohio named John Demjanjuk is wanted on a Munich arrest warrant that accuses him of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Demjanjuk allegedly worked as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

This is the first time I’ve heard of this but apparently this has been going on for a while. Demjanjuk has already asked the United States to block his deportation to Germany, which was declined. His appeal was also declined as well.

“Demjanjuk remained inside his suburban Cleveland home Monday until 3 p.m. when he was escorted out through his garage and immediately into the ambulance.”

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials went to Demjanjuk’s home Friday to serve a government notice asking that he surrender.”

Demjanjuk is rejecting the German allegations that he was a camp guard and is maintaining that he was held by the Soviets as a prisoner of war.

His family has been battling the deportation and is claiming that he is in poor helath and will not survive the trip back.

“Once in Germany, Demjanjuk will be brought before a judge and formally charged. He will also be given the opportunity to make a statement to the court, in keeping with normal justice procedure, German Justice Ministry spokesman Ulrich Staudigl said.”

In Germany, Demjanjuk is expected to be held in the medical unit of a munich prison. The German government has said that preperations have been made at the facility to ensure that he gets the care that he needs.

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Republican Paul Broun is fearing the worst when it comes to President-elect Obama. According to Broun, “It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force. I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may-may not, I hope not-but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”

Referring to an Obama speech in July where Broun said the candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military, “That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did.

When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”

“We can’t be lulled into complacency,” Broun added. “You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential of going down that road.”

Obama’s camp has declined to comment on Broun’s over-the-top accusations.

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