Demjanjuk Case To Start in October
Following a lengthy deportation process to bring him back to Germany from the United States, Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk's case is expected to go to trial in mid-October. The 89 year old, who stands accused of being an accessory to 27,900 counts of murder at Nazi death camps, will be tried before a Munich district court.
A large contingent of prosecutors and witnesses are set to take part in the trial. The judge presiding over the jury court, Ralph Alt, has already approved eight joint plaintiffs, whose families or relations were killed between April and July 1943 at the Sobibór concentration camp. Public prosecutors claim Demjanjuk, born in Ukraine, was a guard there during that time.
The joint plaintiffs, who will be represented by five attorneys, are from the Netherlands, the US and Germany. Some of them experienced the atrocities of the death camps firsthand as young men.
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A large contingent of prosecutors and witnesses are set to take part in the trial. The judge presiding over the jury court, Ralph Alt, has already approved eight joint plaintiffs, whose families or relations were killed between April and July 1943 at the Sobibór concentration camp. Public prosecutors claim Demjanjuk, born in Ukraine, was a guard there during that time.
The joint plaintiffs, who will be represented by five attorneys, are from the Netherlands, the US and Germany. Some of them experienced the atrocities of the death camps firsthand as young men.