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Court: Nazi Demjanjuk Must Stand Trial On Mass-Murder Charges


dem.jpgJohn Demjanjuk, a suspected Nazi death-camp guard, must stand trial on charges that he aided in the murder of 27,900 people in the Sobibor concentration camp during World War II, a German court said.

The 89-year-old, who was deported to Germany from the U.S. in May, must remain in custody, the Munich Regional Court ruled. The trial is likely to start in the beginning of November, the court said in an e-mailed statement today.

Prosecutors claim Demjanjuk assisted in the 1943 killings in then German-occupied Poland. They relied on a Sobibor work – identity card issued for Demjanjuk that Bavarian police experts examined and said is authentic. The card with the number 1393 was handed over to the Germans by the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations.

Demjanjuk’s Munich lawyer Guenther Maull said he couldn’t immediately comment. Demjanjuk’s son has said his father is innocent and to ill to stand trial.

A Ukraine native and retired autoworker, Demjanjuk lived near Cleveland until his deportation to Germany.

(Source: Bloomberg)



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