Sobibor survivor in Demjanjuk trial testimony: “every second we were threatened with death”
By APTuesday, January 19, 2010
Sobibor survivor testifies at Demjanjuk trial
MUNICH — A survivor of the Nazi’s Sobibor death camp testifying in the trial of John Demjanjuk says that Ukrainian guards were all subservient to the German SS.
Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk is accused of being one of the camp’s guards and is charged with being an accessory to the murders of 27,900 people during the time he is alleged to have been at the camp. He denies ever being there.
Sobibor survivor Thomas Blatt told a Munich state court Wednesday that the approximately 150 Ukrainian guards fell under the authority of the 15 German SS men at the camp.
He says that at Sobibor “the German was God.”
The 82-year-old does not remember Demjanjuk from the camp but is testifying to give the court a general picture about how Sobibor operated.
