A GERMAN court convicted John Demjanjuk for his role in the killing of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi death camp during the Holocaust, then set the 91-year-old free because of his age.

A Munich court is poised to deliver its verdict today in the case of John Demjanjuk, the retired US car worker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard, with a ruling that could set new precedent in German law.

Accused Nazi mass murderer John Demjanjuk should not be on trial in Germany because the death camp where he was allegedly a guard was in Poland, his lawyer claimed today.

JOHN Demjanjuk, in his first statement to a German court, said he is one of Hitler’s victims.

A GERMAN court put John Demjanjuk on trial yesterday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp and his lawyer immediately accused the Munich court of bias.

Music channel MTV said today it will air the full series of the Popetown cartoon in Germany, citing a positive response from viewers after it broadcast one episode in the face of strong criticism from the church and politicians.

A Munich court today rejected a call by the city’s archdiocese to ban MTV’s airing of the cartoon Popetown, saying the Vatican parody is “too dumb to be insulting".

Three-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker won €1.2m in damages from a German newspaper on Tuesday.

AN 86-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect charged with the murders of 164 Slovak villagers during the Second World War denied he was involved in the shootings of women or children as his trial opened in Germany yesterday.

Tennis great Boris Becker went on trial in Germany today charged with tax evasion and admitted to wrongdoing but said there were “no criminal machinations”.