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Historian testifies in Demjanjuk case

Former Soviet prisoners of war were trained by the Nazis as guards and used regularly in the Germans' machinery of mass murder, a historian testified Wednesday at the trial of John Demjanjuk....

Dieter Pohl, an expert at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University, described the history of the so-called "Trawniki men," many of them Soviet POWs recruited by the Nazis, to the Munich state court on Wednesday....
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