John Demjanjuk trial: Nazi prison guard case delayed for three weeks
The trial of John Demjanjuk, the Nazi guard accused of involvement in the murder of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor death camp, was adjourned yesterday because he was too ill to appear in court.

Published: 12:02PM GMT 02 Dec 2009

Link to this video A doctor examining the 89-year-old said Demjanjuk had a fever which continued to rise despite medication and the judge decided it was not safe to transport him from hospital. to court.

Ralph Alt, presiding, said the trial would resume on 21 December.


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Victims speak from beyond the grave against Demjanjuk Wednesday was to have featured more testimony, which began on Tuesday, from some of the approximately 40 relatives of victims who have joined the trial as co-plaintiffs as allowed under the German legal system.

Michael Koch, an attorney for about 30 of them, said his clients were "slightly frustrated" by the decision, but had always understood it was a possibility and would tell their stories another day.

"All in all, there were two good days," he said in reference to the first two days of the trial on Monday and Tuesday.

Demjanjuk was deported in May from the United States to Munich, and has been in custody since then. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted for his alleged activities training as a guard in the SS camp Trawniki, then serving in the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.

The prosecution argues that after Demjanjuk, a Soviet Red Army soldier, was captured by the Germans in 1942 he volunteered to serve under the SS as a guard.

Demjanjuk denies ever having served as a guard.

bron : Telegraph 2/12/2009

Allez man, met wat zijn ze bezig. Ik heb die mens op TV gezien. Die leeft nog amper, en dan willen ze die nog voor een gerechtshof brengen. Dat kost alleen maar geld, en wat is het nut...Oke als die kerel zovele dood de dood heeft ingestuurd, maar laat die mens toch is rustig sterven.