Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into Second World War crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps which was closed in the 1980s because of the country’s isolation behind the Iron Curtain.

German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired US car worker John Demjanjuk.

Bavarian prosecutors have opened a new investigation into John Demjanjuk after a German lawyer filed a complaint accusing him of additional war crimes in an attempt to extend the precedent set by his landmark conviction.

John Demjanjuk’s lawyer has said he expects his client’s appeal against his war crimes conviction to last around two years and said he is confident that he will not end up serving prison time.

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 German court has convicted 91-year-old John Demjanjuk of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder as a Nazi death camp guard.

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.

A US military historian told the war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk that he doubted the retired Ohio car worker’s account of his whereabouts in the last years of the Second World War.

ONE of the world’s most wanted Nazi suspects has been charged in Germany with the murder of 430,000 Jews at a concentration camp.

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

The trial in Germany of an alleged Nazi death camp guard was postponed today after reports the 89-year-old defendant was experiencing health problems.

JEWISH prisoners had to unload decomposed corpses at the Nazi death camp at Sobibor and were forbidden to warn new prisoners that they would be gassed within the hour, a survivor testified yesterday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.

The trial of a man accused of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews as a death camp guard was called off for the day today after a doctor said he was too ill to attend court.

PROSECUTORS accused 89-year-old John Demjanjuk yesterday of knowingly herding thousands of Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust and standing by as victims of Nazi death camp Sobibor screamed in fear.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was a willing follower of Hitler, his war crimes trial heard today.

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.

Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk went on trial today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias.

Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk went on trial in Germany today accused of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews.

Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk will go on trial in Munich today in a case that breaks new ground in Germany’s pursuit of Holocaust perpetrators.

GERMAN prosecutors yesterday charged a 90-year-old former member of Hitler’s SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.

GERMAN prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk yesterday with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II.

German prosecutors today formally charged suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder.

ACCUSED Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is fit to stay in jail, German prosecutors said yesterday after the 89-year-old arrived from the United States to face charges he helped kill 29,000 Jews in 1943.

Doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in custody at Munich's Stadelheim prison.

AN 89-year-old former Nazi death camp guard arrived in Germany yesterday after being deported from the United States to face the prospect of a trial for war crimes over the killing of 29,000 Jews.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, deported from the US to face charges of helping murder of 29,000 people, was transferred to a German prison today.

A suspected Nazi death camp guard arrived in Germany today, facing a warrant accusing him of being accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others at Sobibor.

LOSING another round in court, John Demjanjuk, the retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, may be running out of legal options in his decades-long deportation battle.

The US chief immigration judge said he expected to issue a ruling in 30 days about what to do about an Ohio man who was stripped of his citizenship based on a Justice Department case that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard during the Second World War.

The US Justice Department has asked an immigration judge to deport the man once accused of being notorious Nazi death camp guard “Ivan the Terrible”.

A judge today revoked the US citizenship of John Demjanjuk, agreeing with government allegations that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard.