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Updated at 8:45 a.m. ET: Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk died in a care home in Germany at the age of 91 on Saturday, German police said.
Rosenheim police official Kilian Steger told The Associated Press that Demjanjuk died at a home for the elderly in southern Germany where he had been staying since his trial ended in Munich last year.
He was sentenced in May 2011 to five years in prison for his role in the killing of 28,060 Jews at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The German court released him pending appeal because of his advanced age.
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Steger said prosecutors in nearby Traunstein are looking into Demjanjuk's death as routine procedure.
Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker, was deported to Germany in 2009 to face trial in Munich after being stripped of his U.S. citizenship.
At the trial, judges found that evidence showed Demjanjuk was a guard during World War II at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp in then-occupied Poland.
Demjanjuk emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1950s and became a naturalized citizen in 1958.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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