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Daily Mail: Pictures that show accused Nazi war criminal is fit for trial

Just weeks ago, suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk was pictured being carried out of his Cleverland home too frail to even walk or face trial.

But as these pictures claim to show, the 89-year-old is fit to be extradited to Germany where is he accused of more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Demjanjuk's lawyers claimed earlier this month the extradition amounted to torture because of his ill health.
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)