MUNICH – MUNICH (AP) — A court session at the trial of John Demjanjuk has been shortened to allow the defendant time to rest after receiving a blood transfusion.
Judge Ralph Alt ordered that Tuesday's session be curtailed after the 90-year-old retired Ohio autoworker had the transfusion on Monday — something he has undergone about once a month.
Demjanjuk is being tried on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder related to his alleged activities as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. He denies the charges.
Death certificates of dozens of victims of Sobibor were read out on Tuesday — all relatives of co-plaintiffs who joined the case as allowed under German law.
Demjanjuk, wearing sunglasses, rested his right hand over the top of his head as the names were read out.
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