Germany: Demjanjuk Loses Bid to Halt Nazi Death Camp Trial
— Bloomberg reports: “A Munich court rejected requests by John Demjanjuk’s lawyers to halt a trial over charges that he aided in the murder of 27,900 Jews during World War II.”
— “The court threw out a motion claiming Demjanjuk isn’t healthy enough to endure the two daily sessions of hearings scheduled during the trial. The defense wrongly claims its client is degraded into a ‘mere object of the proceedings,’ Presiding Judge Ralph Alt said when delivering the ruling.”
— “It’s Demjanjuk’s ‘own decision not to address the court and to not even deign to look at it — contrary to his behavior outside of the courtroom,’ Alt said. The court respects his habit ‘but it cannot infer from it that he can’t stand trial or that the case must be dropped for any other reason.'”