John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker who was deported May 11 to Germany, sat in a wheelchair breathing through a nasal tube May 12 in Munich, as a German judge read a 21-page warrant accusing him of acting as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 people as a guard at a Nazi death camp.

The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 89, says he was a Red Army soldier who was captured by the Nazis, spent the rest of the war as their prisoner and never hurt anyone. There are Nazi-era documents that suggest otherwise, including a photo ID stating he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp and saying he was trained at an SS facility for Nazi guards at Trawniki.

Demjanjuk, who has been without a country since the United States stripped him of his citizenship in 2002, is likely to spend the rest of his life in Germany, either in jail or in a home for the elderly.