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Accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, 67, is a confused, ignorant man who was pressured into giving testimony during his yearlong trial, his attorney told a Jerusalem court. Summing up for the defense, attorney Yoram Sheftel charged that Demjanjuk’s accusers kept telling him “we’re going to put a rope around your neck” to elicit testimony. The defendant, a former U.S. auto worker, faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews at the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Demjanjuk has denied that he was ever at Treblinka.
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