Demjanjuk Accused of Following Nazi Ideology

Prosecutors accused John Demjanjuk of playing an active role in the Nazis' machinery of destruction, saying Tuesday that he was a willing follower of Hitler's racist ideology as they read the indictment against the retired Ohio autoworker.

The 89-year-old, who was deported from the United States in May to stand trial in Germany, rejects the charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor death camp, saying he has been mistaken for someone else.

Demjanjuk showed little reaction, but put his left hand to his brow as Lutz detailed how Jews were stripped of their belongings and clothes, then led naked into the gas chambers of Sobibor.