MUNICH — John Demjanjuk's attorney says the German trial against his client on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder at the Sobibor camp
lacks a legal basis, because that camp lies in Poland.
Ulrich Busch on Tuesday said in his closing remarks that the 91-year-old, accused of being a guard at that
camp, should therefore not be tried in Germany. He says Polish authorities already dropped an investigation of Demjanjuk for lack of
evidence. Busch also is urging the Munich state court not to consider testimony gathered by the Soviet Union's investigators because it is likely to be
biased. BusCh failed to request a general
investigation concerning the operation of the
Sobibor camp, based on the results of the work by a team of Polish
archaeologists about ten years ago, led by Professor Andrzej Kola from the University of Torun.
The Ukrainian-born retired Ohio autoworker is accused of serving as a guard at the Sobibor
camp — charges he
rejects. A verdict may come on Thursday.
