U.S. historian throws doubt on Demjanjuk's wartime claims
A historian testifying in the case against suspected Nazi concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk expressed doubt on Tuesday over earlier claims regarding the 90-year-old's period of wartime captivity....
During an earlier trial, Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk said he was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp in Chelm until 1944, and could therefore not be held responsible for the deaths at Sobibor.
However, U.S. historian Bruce Menning said that all but 464 captured Red Army soldiers had left Chelm by April 1944, before the Soviets captured the town and freed the camp....
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During an earlier trial, Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk said he was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp in Chelm until 1944, and could therefore not be held responsible for the deaths at Sobibor.
However, U.S. historian Bruce Menning said that all but 464 captured Red Army soldiers had left Chelm by April 1944, before the Soviets captured the town and freed the camp....