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In morning testimony, however, Nagorny did not mention Demjanjuk and failed to remember the names of many of his Ukrainian comrades during the war
-- and those with whom he lived after the war. "I knew all their names, but they're long dead," he told the court. He walked into the courtroom slowly but unaided, alternating the hand in which he held his cane. He did not make eye contact with Demjanjuk, who lay on a bed next to the door through which he entered. The special German prosecutors' office responsible for investigating Nazi-era crimes is investigating Nagorny himself, to see whether he might have served at the Treblinka death camp. There is evidence implicating a "Nagorny" as having served as a Treblinka guard, but investigators have said that it is not clear whether it is the same person. Prosecutors argue in the Demjanjuk case that to have served at one of the Nazi death camps in occupied Poland
-- whose sole purpose was extermination -- is enough to accuse one of accessory to murder. The argument does not extend to those who served in the scores of concentration camps like Flossenbuerg where, though scores were killed or died through inhumane treatment, people were not necessarily sent simply to be murdered.
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