(30 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of medical officials wheeling John Demjanjuk taken out of courtroom on gurney after first day of trial, camera pans as Demjanjuk is wheeled past
2. Demjanjuk being wheeled past
3. Wide of media waiting
4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Barbara Stockinger, Munich prosecutor's spokeswoman:
"The defendant has followed the session today with his eyes closed. The experts have estimated he is feeling well enough to follow the session and the fact he did it with eyes closed.. they had no doubt meant he is following with concentration. They also spoke to the defendant during the break so there is no doubt he's able to follow us."
5. Spokeswoman talking to media
6. SOUNDBITE: (German) Guether Maul, Demjanjuk's public defendant:
"As long as one considers him to be able to follow the proceedings, one will bring him to the proceedings with available means. For me personally, it does not make much sense, but that does not matter, what matters is the legal situation."
7. Cutaway of clock on wall
8. SOUNDBITE: (German) Ulrich Busch, Demjanjuk lawyer:
"If he was there, as implied (by the indictment) than one has to imagine the experiences he had in the POW camp, also with German SS guards, and how they were treating the Jews. If you wanted to refuse to obey orders in such a situation, I'd like to see how would you do that. You would do everything in such circumstances."
9. Wide of media
STORYLINE:
A German court put John Demjanjuk on trial Monday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, and his lawyer immediately accused the court of bias.
The court case has opened the final chapter of some 30 years of efforts to prosecute the retired Ohio autoworker.
After the first 90-minute session, Demjanjuk was returned to the courtroom lying flat on his back on a gurney, covered in blankets.
Doctors who had examined Demjanjuk before the second session began said he had complained of serious pain and was given a shot.
They ordered the session be cut short, and it wrapped up 30 minutes later.
Demjanjuk was wheeled away from court on the gurney after the second session ended.
A doctor who examined Demjanjuk two hours before the trial began said his vital signs were all stable.
Demjanjuk's family, however, says he is terminally ill. His trial has been limited to two 90-minute sessions per day.
Demjanjuk kept his eyes closed throughout the proceedings and remained mute in response to the judge's questions about his personal details.
He repeatedly opened his mouth, apparently wincing in pain.
The trial of the 89-year-old opened with Demjanjuk's attorney filing a motion against the judge and prosecutors, accusing them of bias.
Lawyer Ulrich Busch charged that the case should never have been brought to trial.
He cited cases in which Germans who were assigned to the Sobibor camp in occupied Poland, where prosecutors allege Demjanjuk served as a guard, were acquitted.
Demjanjuk was deported in May from the United States to Germany, and has been in custody since then.
He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Demjanjuk, a former Soviet Red Army soldier, is accused of volunteering to serve as a guard under the SS after being taken prisoner by the Nazis in 1942.
The prosecution argues that, even with no living witnesses who can implicate Demjanjuk in specific acts of brutality or murder, just being a guard at a death camp means he was involved in the Nazis' machinery of destruction.
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