John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former U.S. auto worker, went on trial in Germany on Monday facing charges he helped to force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in an extermination camp in 1943.
Demjanjuk entered the court in a wheelchair, a Reuters witness said. More than 200 journalists from around the world descended on the court in the southern city of Munich for what is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era trial.
German state prosecutors believe Demjanjuk, who was top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted war criminals, assisted in murders at the Sobibor death camp in what is now Poland, where at least 250,000 Jews were killed.
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