Demjanjuk attorney: Client suffered like Jews did
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John Demjanjuk's attorney argued Thursday for his client's acquittal on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, saying the 91-year-old alleged former guard suffered as much as the Jews did at the hands of Nazis.
The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was a young Soviet army soldier when he was captured in 1942 by the Nazis during World War II and thrown into a prisoner of war camp. Prosecutors say after that, he agreed to serve as a guard and trained at the SS Trawniki camp before being sent to Sobibor. But Demjanjuk says he was held prisoner for most of the rest of the war and never served as a guard in any camp. (AP)
