CINCINNATI – A lawyer for alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk says the government is wrong when it claims the 89-year-old is healthy enough to travel.
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court in Cincinnati to allow it to deport Demjanjuk from his suburban Cleveland home to Germany.
An arrest warrant in Munich alleges he was a guard at a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943.
The government filed a video last week showing Demjanjuk walking on his own.
The lawyer's response was filed Tuesday. It says that Demjanjuk may be able to walk a few steps unassisted but that medical evidence shows arrest, incarceration and trial would cause severe pain.
Demjanjuk says he was a prisoner of war.
