Germany finds grandson of 1947 Demjanjuk road-death victim

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German prosecutors studying claims that John Demjanjuk, 89, may have deliberately run over and killed a Jewish man after the Second World War said today they had traced the victim's grandson.

The inquiry is being conducted at the same time as Ukraine-born Demjanjuk is being tried in Munich over allegations that he helped kill 27,900 Jews at Sobibor Nazi death camp in 1943. He was later a refugee in Germany, then moved to the United States in 1952.

The incident, rediscovered by private researchers, allegedly happened in 1947 near the southern German city of Ulm.

In Ulm, a prosecutions spokesman said the grandson, who lives in the United States, had mailed an extract of the death registration which proved that his grandfather was of the Jewish faith.

But the grandson was unable to say anything about the accident.

The prosecutors are checking German records to establish if the incident amounted to murder. They have also asked the German national war-crimes prosecutor to check out the claims and they expect a reply this week, the spokesman said.

The file is then to be sent to the prosecutors conducting the Sobibor-camp trial. Prosecutors say Demjanjuk collaborated with the Nazis after being taken prisoner while serving in the Red Army.

Demjanjuk, who lived in Germany as a displaced person after the Second World War ended in 1945, is believed to have done various jobs, including driving a truck for the US Army motor pool from 1947 to 1949.

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