The legal saga of John Demjanjuk neared its final chapter as prosecutors set the stage for one of Germany's highest-profile war crime trials in years — formally charging the retired U.S. auto worker with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people at a Nazi ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A survivor of the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, where war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk is thought to have worked, recalls guards driving Jews into gas chambers with bayonets and emerging spattered with blood. Thomas Blatt, whose family was murdered in 1943 at the Sobibor camp in present-day Poland, wants to testify as a witness at Demjanjuk's ...

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is fit to stay in jail, German prosecutors said on Wednesday after the 89-year-old arrived from the United States to face charges he helped kill 29,000 Jews in 1943. Demjanjuk, who has been held in a jail in southern Germany since Tuesday, tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list ...

Sitting in a wheelchair and breathing through a nasal tube, retired auto worker John Demjanjuk listened silently Tuesday as a German judge read a 21-page warrant accusing him of acting as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 people at a Nazi death camp. Prosecutors in Munich made clear they hope to press ahead quickly with the case against ...