He said Germans who worked at the Sobibor death camp in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where Demjanjuk is accused of working as a guard, were acquitted in previous trials.
VOA: standard.2009.11.30
Poland was the site of some of the most notorious Nazi German death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor.
They said they had documents proving his Nazi background, including an SS identity card which showed he had been a guard at Sobibor between March and September 1943, and many witness testimonies.