The Devil Next Door takes the genre of true crime to its highest possible level, tackling one of the most horrific atrocities in human history the Holocaust. Demjanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 and was extradited to Israel, where he was convicted in 1988 of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. They recall the descriptions of fetuses being cut from the bellies of pregnant women, of babies being tossed into raging fires. Demjanjuk was first accused of being Ivan the Terrible in 1977 by the U.S. Justice Department. But back in America, decades later, an immigration judge ruled there was enough evidence to prove he had been a guard at other Nazi camps, and he was sent abroad for trial again in 2009. John Demjanjuk nailed the dark wood paneling in the family basement, glued down the linoleum and even built a second kitchen for his wife, Vera, to cook in during the hot summer months. Theyve been to places such as Dnepropetrovsk and Babaykovka in Ukraine. Born in Ukraine in 1920, Demjanjuk was raised in impoverished conditions, and, along with his family, endured an engineered famine in the 1930s that killed millions of Ukrainians. When his. However, his similarities to the real-life Ivan the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Russia from 1553 to 1547, go beyond their shared moniker.Ivan the Terrible was rumored to have killed his eldest son, a truly unthinkable act, and Demjanjuk also took part in heinous murders during his time as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor concentration camp. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Things got even weirder after John Demjanjuk's death. Magazines, Or create a free account to access more articles, The History Behind Netflixs Nazi Trial Documentary Series. Each has been in and out of Israel so many times their everyday language is spiced with Hebrew and Yiddish words. He turned up in court in a wheelchair or lying motionless on a stretcher. You can unsubscribe at any time. Netflix has docu-series on John Demjanjuk, the accused Nazi guard who lived in Northeast Ohio In Israel, he was convicted of being "Ivan the Terrible," a conviction that was later overturned by. He joined the Red Army like millions of others, and was serving in eastern Crimea in 1942 when he was captured by the Germans.