Nazi criminal charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder
Prosecutors in Germany formally charged alleged nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II, the BBC reports.
There was no immediate word on when the trial of the 89-year-old retired car worker, who was deported from the United States in May, might begin.
Demjanjuk has denied accusations that he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp and helped murder Jews. He says he was captured by Germans in his native Ukraine while fighting for the Red Army and kept as a prisoner of war.
However, nazi-era documents obtained by U.S. justice authorities and shared with German prosecutors include a photo ID identifying Demjanjuk as a guard at the Sobibor death camp and say he was trained at an SS facility for Nazi guards at Trawniki, also in Poland.
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