Germany – Demjanjuk Defense Asks for More Evidence in Raft of New Motions

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    FILE - John Demjanjuk holds a sign 1627  _ the number of a Soviet investigative file on him the defense says has hundreds of pages of details _as he is brought into the courtroom in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Lukas Barth, pool)Munich, Germany – John Demjanjuk’s defence team is asking for more evidence to be sought in his trial on charges he served as a guard in the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp.

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    Ukrainian-born retired Ohio autoworker Demjanjuk, 90, is accused of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder. He rejects the charges, saying he never served as a guard in any Nazi camp.

    Attorney Ulrich Busch filed 180 new motions in writing Tuesday to the court.

    In a summary read aloud by judges on Wednesday, he asked for the court to find a statement from former Sobibor prisoner Dov Freiberg from 1976. Freiberg allegedly says that he was assigned to clean the Sobibor barracks where the Ukrainian guards were housed, and that he does not remember any Demjanjuk.

    It was not clear when the judges would rule on the request.


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    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    13 years ago

    Gee I though the old SOB would be dead by now from that hunger strike he said he was going on.

    bennyt
    bennyt
    13 years ago

    Why doesn’t he volunteer to submit to a polygraph exam to see if it confirms his claim that he is innocent?