Nazi death camp guard to go on trial

Germany is to begin extradition proceedings to bring a Nazi concentration camp guard to trial in Munich for the murders of 29,000 people.

John Demjanjuk, 88, was cleared in the Nineties of being a notorious guard known as "Ivan the Terrible" who herded women and children into the gas chambers of Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.

Prosecutors accepted that paperwork supplied by the former Soviet Union was fake, but investigators examined his background and believe he was a guard at another camp in Poland, Sobibor, where 250,000 people died between March 1942 and October 1943.

Demjanjuk, who has lived in the US since 1951 and denies war crimes, was stripped of his citizenship last May after the Supreme Court refused to hear his final appeal against extradition.