Munich, Germany  - US authorities are to extradite Ukrainian- born John Demjanjuk to Germany next week to answer charges that he helped put at least 29,000 Jews to death at a Nazi death camp, a German newspaper said Wednesday.

Demjanjuk would arrive on Monday in Munich, where a warrant was issued three weeks ago for his arrest, the newspaper Abendzeitung said, quoting the accused's German lawyer, Guenther Maull.

A German Justice Ministry spokeswoman in Berlin said, "We can neither confirm nor deny this."

Demjanjuk was acquitted in 1993 by the Israeli Supreme Court of charges that he worked at the Nazis' Treblinka camp. This time he is being accused of working at a different wartime camp, Sobibor, at a location which is now part of Poland.

The 88-year-old former US car worker is to be interviewed in Munich before any indictment is issued. He has been stripped of his US citizenship and is now stateless. Washington has been eager to expel him.

A senior Munich prosecutor, Manfred Noetzel, said last week that a war crimes trial involving Demjanjuk was likely to require a major effort and a lot of time, but was vague about whether the accused would arrive "next week or the week after that."

German evidence suggests Demjanjuk, then 23, was a guard at Sobibor from March till the end of September 1943. After the Second World War he lived in Germany as a refugee. In 1952 he changed his first name from Ivan to John and moved to the United States. (dpa)