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Demjanjuk: Trial for 'Nazi' murders begins

The 89-year-old Ukrainian, charged of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor camp, arrived at court in a wheelchair, accompanied by two guards and two doctors.

November 30, 2009 11:58
John Demjanjuk: His trial begins in Munich

ByJessica Elgot, Jessica Elgot

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The accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has begun his trial in Munich.

The 89-year-old Ukrainian, charged of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor camp, arrived at court in a wheelchair, accompanied by two guards and two doctors.

The start of the trial was delayed for 70 minutes after hundreds of people descended upon the Munich courtroom, attempting to gain entry to witness the trial.

Mr Demjanjuk says he was a prisoner of war captured by the Nazis from the Red Army. But prosecutors allege the Ukrainian had willingly become an SS guard at the Sobibor death camp where 250,000 people, mostly Jewish victims, were killed.