BERLIN, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors in Germany formally charged Nazi suspect John Demjanjuk on Monday with helping to murder 27,900 people during World War II, national media said.
The court in Munich announced the charges but has yet to confirm when the trial of Demjanjuk, 89, will begin, Der Spiegel said.
The Ukrainian-born Nazi death camp guard was pronounced fit to stand trial for "complicity to murder" 10 days ago.
"The doctors recommend however that questioning be limited to two sessions of 90 minutes per day," thelocal.de cited the court statement.
A retired auto worker, Demjanjuk was sent from the United States to a Munich prison in May after having lost a case against his deportation.
His lawyers had insisted their client was too ill to stand the trial, but images released by the U.S. government showed Demjanjuk shopping and entering his car unaided.
Demjanjuk is accused of being a notoriously brutal SS guard at Treblinka camp, where he was allegedly known as "Ivan the Terrible."
The man denied the accusations saying he was a Red Army soldier who was captured by the Nazis. He once said he "had sold his soul for a slice of bread," but insisted he had killed no one.
Demjanjuk faced the accusations for the first time in late 1970s. U.S. authorities revoked his citizenship in 1981 saying during his 1952 entry into the country he did not mention his past as a Nazi guard.
The suspect was extradited to Israel in 1986. However, the allegation was eventually dropped by both countries as some evidence suggested "Ivan the Terrible" was someone else.
However, Nazi-era documents including a photo ID discovered later identify Demjanjuk as a guard at the Sobibor and Treblinka death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943.
