Accused Nazi prison guard vindicated by the Soviet Union and Israel.

Alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is in jail in Munich, facing charges of being an accessory to the deaths of 29,000 Jews in World War II.

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The frail 89-year-old arrived in Germany on Tuesday morning after being deported from the US.

He is now in Stadelheim prison, say prosecutors, where he will undergo a medical check and then have his pages-long arrest warrant read out to him.

He denies accusations that he worked as a guard in the Sobibor Nazi death camp.

Mr Demjanjuk, who settled in the US in 1952, says he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war. More