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  • ** FILE ** John Demjanjuk waits in a Munich courtroom on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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  • ** FILE ** In this May 12, 2011, file picture John Demjanjuk leaves the court room, in Munich, southern Germany. German police say John Demjanjuk, who was charged with 28,060 counts of accessory to murder and convicted last year of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, has died. (AP Photo/dapd/ Lennart Preiss,File)

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  • ** FILE ** John Demjanjuk waits in a Munich courtroom on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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  • ** FILE ** John Demjanjuk waits in a Munich courtroom on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

    Germany reopens hundreds of Nazi probes

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  • Lawyer Ulrich Busch (foreground) greets his client John Demjanjuk, who was convicted in a Munich court of thousands of counts of acting as an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp and sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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  • On Tuesday, May 3, 2011, Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk arrives in a wheelchair at a Munich courthouse, where he is on trial on 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder for allegedly serving as a guard in the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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  • John Demjanjuk is brought into the courtroom in Munich on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, where he is standing trial on 28,060 counts of accessory to murder on allegations that he agreed to serve as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. Mr. Demjanjuk said he will go on hunger strike if the state court does not pursue more evidence that he says could exonerate him of the charges. (AP Photo/Lukas Barth, Pool)

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  • Judge Thomas Walther (left) waits as defendant John Demjanjuk (right) enters the courtroom in a wheelchair in February for a session in Munich. Judge Walther is one of the key figures in the decision to try Mr. Demjanjuk, who is the first non-German alleged Nazi collaborator to stand trial in a German court. His trial resumes this week in Munich after a summer break. (Associated Press)

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