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Last May, American immigration agents arrived at the suburban Cleveland home of Ivan “John” Demjanjuk to deliver him to a jail cell in Bavaria. A widely published Associated Press photo caught the 89-year-old Demjanjuk being lifted into an Immigration Services van, eyes closed and mouth agape—an expression of either affected bewilderment or honest despondency. His son protested to assembled journalists that the proceedings were “inhuman.”