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Munich state prosecutors appealed a district court\’s decision to release convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk from prison pending his appeal. Monday\’s appeal of Demjanjuk\’s release, following his conviction on war crimes on May 12, also appealed the five-year sentence handed down that day for being too lenient. The prosecutors\’ reasons will be presented in writing and only then released to the public, according to a spokesperson for the Munich District II court, which found Demjanjuk, 91, guilty as an accessory to nearly 28,000 murders in the Nazi death camp Sobibor in occupied Poland in 1943.