WYSO Local News
(2011-07-18)
BERLIN, GERMANY
(WYSO) -
Bavarian prosecutors say they have opened a new investigation of John Demjanjuk after a German attorney filed a complaint accusing him of additional war crimes.The 91-year-old retired Ohio autoworker was convicted May 12 of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder for guarding the Nazi Sobibor death camp.
The case was the first time someone was convicted on evidence of being a guard alone, without evidence of a specific killing.
Prosecutor Gerd Schaeffer says the new complaint charges Demjanjuk for also guarding the Flossenbuerg concentration camp. Schaeffer says he doesn't know how long his investigation will take.
Attorney Cornelius Nestler says his goal of the new complaint is to expand the case precedent to apply to concentration camp guards as well as death camp guards. © Copyright 2012, WYSO
