Suspected Nazi war criminal charged
Updated on 13 July 2009
A suspected Nazi death camp guard has been charged with helping to kill about 28,000 Jews in World War Two.
The case against John Demjanjuk is expected to be one of Germany's last major Nazi-era war crimes cases.
The 89-year old, who has been held in a jail in southern Germany since May 12 after he was deported from the US, will be tried at a court in Munich.
The court announcing the charges could not give details on when the trial would take place.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, who denies any role in the Holocaust, was deemed fit by medical experts to stand trial despite protestations from his family that he is too frail.
Demjanjuk tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of its ten most-wanted suspected war criminals. They say he pushed men, women and children into gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp in what is modern-day Poland.
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