The World - News from Jan. 25, 1988

The trial of retired Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk, the first in Israel of an alleged Nazi war criminal since the execution of mass murderer Adolf Eichmann in 1962, enters its final phase today. Israeli prosecutors, who will begin their summations in a Jerusalem court, accuse Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 67, of being the brutal guard “Ivan the Terrible,” so named for his atrocities at the Treblinka death camp in World War II. “I was never at Treblinka,” Demjanjuk has countered. Court observers expect a verdict in March or April.