Prosecutors in Germany have decided that John Demjanjuk, an accused Nazi guard, is mentally and physically fit to stand trial as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews.
Demjanjuk, 89 years old, is accused of being a guard at the Sobibor concentration camp located in Poland. Denying that he was a Nazi guard, Demjanjuk claimed that he was a soldier in the Red Army and was actually a prisoner of the Nazis.
Prosecutors refute that claim after obtaining Nazi-era documents that list Demjanjuk's work record and even included a picture ID. The documents allege that he was a guard at the Sobibor camp and was trained as a guard by the S.S.
Demjanjuk was originally living in the United States as a retired autoworker in Ohio, but was deported to face trial in Germany. Doctors in Germany
estimate that Demjanjuk has roughly 16 months to live because he suffers from incurable leukemic bone marrow disease.
