German prosecutors want 6-year prison term for Demjanjuk | JTA - Jewish & Israel News
State prosecutors in Munich have asked for a six-year jail sentence for accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk.
The request by prosecutor Hans-Joachim came during closing arguments Tuesday in a Munich courtroom. A verdict is expected in May following a trial that has lasted nearly a year and a half.
Lutz reportedly said the evidence proved that Demjanjuk, now 90, had played an active role as an accomplice to the murder of 27,900 Jews in the Nazi death camp Sobibor in Poland in 1943. Lutz said Demjanjuk had participated in the murder out of “cruel, treacherous and base motives.”
Everyone who worked at the extermination camp was involved in murder, he said, and there is no statute of limitation on murder — even nearly 70 years after the crime.