MUNICH — After three decades of fighting in court, suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was deported from the United States to Germany today to face allegations of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others at the Sobibor death camp.

If the 89-year-old retired Ohio autoworker is found fit to stand trial, it could bring an end to a legal saga that began in 1977 and involved courts and government officials from at least five countries on three continents.

Demjanjuk's case is an example of how difficult it has become to bring alleged Nazi war criminals to trial more than six decades since the end of World War II.

Demjanjuk arrived at Munich's airport from Cleveland on today aboard a private jet that taxied directly into a hangar, accompanied by police vehicles and an ambulance.

From there he was transported by ambulance, under police escort, to a special medical unit of the Stadelheim prison.