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MUNICH, FRG (Reuters) – John Demjanjuk, accused of serving to kill 27,900 Jews in the Holocaust, module go on a suffer accomplish unless the suite allows him to present deposit that could exonerate him, his attorney said Tuesday.

Ulrich Busch, who is defending the 90-year-old in a Munich suite against charges of assisting in killings at the Sobibor fascist modification tent in Poland, said Demjanjuk would begin the suffer accomplish within the incoming two weeks.

Busch said there are documents in a KGB file from country and country that could establish Demjanjuk is innocent. He read a evidence for Demjanjuk in which he accused Judge Ralph Alt of conducting a semipolitical "show trial."

"This is a mockery of justice," Busch said on Demjanjuk's behalf.

Prosecutors are due to conclude their housing weekday and test arguments could also begin unless Demjanjuk's health deteriorates, a Munich suite spokesman said. A verdict could be reached in March.

The 15-month effort has been delayed periodically as Demjanjuk has refused at times to listen sessions on deposit of ill-health modify though he was proclaimed fit by doctors.

German land prosecutors criminate Demjanjuk, who was top of the saint Wiesenthal Center's list of most desired struggle criminals, of assisting in killings at Sobibor, where they feature at small 250,000 Jews were killed. He denies having worked there.

His family says he is likewise feeble for trial, which he began in Nov 2009 in a wheelchair and attends misrepresentaation down.

Demjanjuk was dropped in country and fought in the Red Army before the Nazis captured him and recruited him as a tent guard during World War Two. He emigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a foreign citizen in 1958.

(Reporting by faith Kraemer and Eric Kelsey; Writing by Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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