Prisoners Of War


MUNICH, Germany - Ukrainian guards risked being killed by their SS supervisors if they tried to flee Nazi death camps where they served, according to evidence presented Monday at the trial of John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio autoworker accused of being a death camp guard.

TOKYO - Japan's foreign minister has apologized to former World War II prisoners of war who are visiting from the United States and says they were treated inhumanely.

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Thirteen inmates escaped when armed men stormed a prison in the northern Mexican border city of Reynosa, an official with the federal Attorney General's Office said Sunday.

MUNICH - Soviet prisoners of war used by the Nazis as death camp guards weren't told what they were agreeing to do when they signed up to serve the Germans, an expert testified Wednesday in the trial of John Demjanjuk.

MUNICH - John Demjanjuk sat in a wheelchair wrapped in a light blue blanket, his eyes closed and his face pale as his trial opened Monday on charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard.
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