Accused Nazi death camp guard judged ‘fit to stay in jail’

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.

Demjanjuk, who has been held in a jail in southern Germany since Tuesday, tops the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s list of its 10 most-wanted suspected war criminals.

“He got through the night well and the doctor thinks he is fit to stay in jail,” state prosecutor Anton Winkler said.