Germany opens new Nazi investigation

A German prosecutor told The Associated Press he has a murder investigation against a key witness in the trial of John Demjanjuk opened.

The probe is based on evidence Nagorno Alex may have been involved in the massacre on the Nazis' Treblinka concentration camp in occupied Poland.

Prosecutor Hans-Joachim Lutz told the AP Friday Witnesses say 94-year-old Nagorno participated in mass executions of Jewish prisoners in 1941-1942. He tries to determine whether there is enough evidence for the charges.

Nagorno has testified in the Demjanjuk case, he served as a guard with Demjanjuk in the Flossenbuerg concentration camp in Bavaria.

He also told the court he knew nothing of Treblinka, testified he had heard the name, but "why, I do not know."