John Demjanjuk stands trial in Munich

Munich, Germany, November 30 2009: Police stand next to accused Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk as he arrives at the court room Photograph: Miguel Villagran/guardian.co.uk

Jerusalem, Israel, 1988: John Demjanjuk, centre, is carried into court feet first to hear the verdict in his Nazi war crimes trial. His family said he was suffering from a back injury. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Jerusalem, Israel, 1992: Demjanjuk laughs in the Supreme Court during his appeal against his conviction of being Nazi guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka, in Poland from 1942-43. Photograph: Nati Harnik/guardian.co.uk

The service certificate of Ivan( John) Demjanjuk, who received the identitiy card as 'Watchman' at his labour camp in Trawniki, Poland. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Israel, 1993: Demjanjuk in his cell at Ayalon Prison. Demjanjuk had been sentenced to death following his conviction of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a verdict that was eventually overturned on appeal which allowed him to return to the United States. Photograph: /guardian.co.uk

1993: Demjanjuk poses with controversial congressman James Traficant, on board his flight back to the US after his conviction in Israel was overturned. Photograph: AFP /guardian.co.uk

A reproduction of an identity card for John Demjanjuk, then known as Ivan, from the year 1948. Demjanjuk had himself registered in 1948 as a displaced person -- a category reserved mainly for former concentration camp prisoners and forced labourers, according to copies of records provided by the International Tracing Service. Photograph: ITS/guardian.co.uk

Munich, Germany, November 30 2009: Robert Cohen, joint plaintiff in the trial against Demjanjuk, shows a tattoo he got from Nazi's in the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Photograph: Michael Dalder/guardian.co.uk