Documents suggest Demjanjuk link to 2nd Nazi camp

MUNICH – A German historian on Wednesday presented evidence at the trial of John Demjanjuk that suggested he worked as a guard at the Nazis’ Flossenbuerg concentration camp.

Matthias Meissner of Germany’s Federal Archive showed the Munich state court original documents from Flossenbuerg listing a man called “Demianiuk” and “Demenjuk” as a guard there in October 1943.

The ID number on the card was the same as on the key piece of evidence in the trial — a Nazi-issued identity card that the prosecution says carried Demjanjuk’s photo and indicates he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Poland.

Although Demjanjuk isn’t charged with any crimes at Flossenbuerg, which was a forced labor camp rather than a death camp, the documents shown by Meissner could back up the prosecution’s allegation that Demjanjuk was indeed a camp guard and might later have been transferred to Sobibor.

Former Ohio autoworker Demjanjuk faces 28,060 counts of accessory to murder related to his alleged activities at Sobibor.