Records in the Federal District Court here reveal that the defense attorneys for accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk will be allowed to accompany Justice Department prosecutors to Germany next month to take depositions from two German witnesses for an upcoming trial. Demjanjuk is accused of having been a guard at the Treblinka death camp during World War II.”
Travel and maintenance expenses of John Martin and Spiros Gonakis, lawyers for the 59-year-old, Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, will be paid by the U.S. government. The identifies of the two German witnesses are being kept secret pursuant to an order by U.S. Magistrate Jack Streepy. It is known, however, that the testimony of at least one of them will be video-taped and that the recording of this testimony will be replayed during the trial.
The case is expected to reach the courtroom of Federal District Judge Frank Battisti as early as March.
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