Nazi war crimes trial of my generation

Being 23 years old, I naturally assumed that the war crimes trials that followed the Second World War were a thing of the past. I read about Nuremberg in history books, and looked at the past from the comfort of the twenty-first century. I never thought I would hear anything new about Nazi prosecution, the Holocaust, or the war. Well, I was wrong...

89-year-old John Demjanjuk is on trial in Munich for being a prison guard in the Sobibor concentration camp who allegedly led tens of thousands of Jews to their deaths. It is believed he helped kill roughly 27,900 people while working at the camp in occupied Poland. Demjanjuk claims he was forced to work at the camp after being captured while fighting for the Red Army, but prosecutors claim he volunteered. There is no documentation to substantiate either claim, but one fact is certain... he did work at the camp.

Demjanjuk suffers from leukemia, and he has to be brought in and out of court on a stretcher. At times he is too weak to even participate in the proceedings. The man is obviously at the end of his life, but many people believe his weakness is just an act. This raises one main question in my mind: Should someone still stand trial if they are too old to stand?

In 1986, he was sentenced to death in Israel for being the sadistic "Ivan the Terrible," a Sobibor death camp Nazi prison guard. The conviction was overturned when Israel recognized they had the wrong man. Now, twenty-four years later, he is defending his actions and possibly his innocence once again.

The court case still continues, and I have no idea how to feel about it. No one can say for sure what his role was at the camp. I plan to follow the story, and the outcome is anyone's guess. Will Demjanjuk be acquitted due to a lack of evidence? Or, will he be sentenced to serve in prison over sixty years after his involvement in the Second World War?