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Former camp guard implicates Demjanjuk at his trial

John Demjanjuk served as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany during World War II, a former Soviet soldier who was taken prisoner by the Germans testified at his trial Wednesday.

However, witness Alex Nagorny cast doubt on the statement by saying that the man being tried at the Munich state court didn't look like his fellow guard at the Flossenbuerg camp.

Prosecutors allege that, like Nagorny, Demjanjuk agreed to serve the Germans and was trained at the Trawniki SS camp before being sent to work as a camp guard.

Demjanjuk is accused of serving as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland, and charged as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews there....
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