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Tue 12 Dec 2009Trial opens in Germany of accused Nazi camp guard
AMID FARCICAL scenes, the trial opened in Munich yesterday of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, accused of assisting in the murder of nearly 28,000 Jews in a Nazi death camp.
Shortly after 11am, a wan 89-year-old man with sunken cheeks was wheeled into the octagonal chamber of Munich high court. Reclined in a high-backed wheelchair and covered in a blue blanket, Mr Demjanjuk kept his eyes shut and his mouth hanging open as he was studied by more than 200 journalists and relatives of those killed in the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in occupied Poland.
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