Munich - German judges and advisors examined Monday the Nazi personnel card which is to be the key item of evidence at the accessory-to-murder trial of John Demjanjuk, 89. The state court in Munich has yet to decide whether to accept the case. Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk is alleged to have helped herd 27,900 Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers at the Nazis' Sobibor camp in occupied Poland.
A court spokeswoman said the card was being looked at, but there would be no public statement about any findings.
The German-language SS record card contains the name Iwan Demjanjuk, a black-and-white photograph, a physical description, a list of issued clothing and a list of deployments ending with a move to Sobibor in 1943.
At a previous trial in Israel, it was alleged the card was a Soviet forgery. Demjanjuk was acquitted on appeal.
Bavarian police scientists say the card was genuinely issued by the SS, the Nazi private army which ran the camps. Demjanjuk was allegedly an auxiliary, the lowest level of uniformed staff in the camps.
He was a displaced person in Germany after the Second World War and translated his birth name Iwan to its English equivalent John when he moved to the United States.
Officials have said a trial cannot start before early November. Demjanjuk, who was deported from the United States in May, is being kept in the sick bay of a Munich prison while he awaits trial.
