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| 'Nazi guard' Demjanjuk is charged | 'Nazi guard' Demjanjuk is charged |
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| Prosecutors in Germany have formally charged alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II. | Prosecutors in Germany have formally charged alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II. |
| The prosecutors' office in Munich said the charges had been filed on Monday. | The prosecutors' office in Munich said the charges had been filed on Monday. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Mr Demjanjuk has denied accusations that he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp and helped murder Jews. | Mr 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. | He says he was captured by Germans in his native Ukraine while fighting for the Red Army and kept as a prisoner of war. |
| In 1988, Mr Demjanjuk was sentenced to death in Israel for crimes against humanity, after Holocaust survivors identified him as a notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp. | |
| But the Israeli Supreme Court overturned that conviction and he returned to the US. | |
| Earlier this year, German prosecutors said they had documents proving his Nazi past, including an SS identity card which showed he had been posted to Sobibor in 1943, and witness testimonies. |