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Prosecutors in Germany have charged a suspected Nazi camp guard with helping to kill 430,000 Jews in the Holocaust and personally shooting 10 others.

John Demjanjuk was brought by ambulance to a Munich court today to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, opening the final chapter of about 30 years of efforts to prosecute the retired Ohio autoworker.

German prosecutors have formally charged John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder.

Doctors in Germany have determined that John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker accused of being an Nazi extermination camp guard, is fit to stand trial.

German authorities say they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazi's Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S.