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Alleged Nazi guard faces 29,700 murder charges
Monday, 13 July 2009
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German prosecutors have formally charged a suspected Nazi death camp guard with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder.
Eighty-nine-year-old John Demanjuk was extradited from the US in May.
He is accused of serving as a guard at the Sobibor camp in Poland during the Second World War.
Demjanjuk says he was a Red Army soldier who spent the war as a Nazi prisoner and never hurt anyone.
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John Demanjuk was tried, found guilty and sentenced to death in Israel sveral years ago, before the Russian authorities produced incontestable evidence that he wasn't the person that that he had been convicted of being.
I don't doubt that he is a monster, but I think the case against him lost any credibility, right there.
If he beats this rap, maybe the Simon Wiesenthal organisation could prove that he was Idi Amin, or Vlad the Impaler.
Posted by Spade Braithwaite | 13.07.09, 22:05 GMT