Demjanjuk in German prison

MUNICH (AP) — After three decades of fighting in court, John Demjanjuk was incarcerated Tuesday in a German prison, deported from the United States to face allegations of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp.

As the retired Ohio autoworker was formally placed into investigative custody, his lawyer, Guenther Maull, immediately filed a challenge against the arrest warrant that brought his client to Germany. Maull argued that the evidence was not solid and Germany's jurisdiction was questionable.

If the 89-year-old is found fit to stand trial, it would be the culmination of a legal saga that began in 1977 and has involved courts and government officials from at least five countries on three continents.

After Demjanjuk flew into Munich and was transferred to a prison in Stadelheim, a judge read him the 21-page arrest warrant in German. It was translated into Ukrainian for Demjanjuk as he sat in a wheelchair, receiving oxygen through a nasal tube, Maull said.

"He understood what was being read to him," Maull added.