CLEVELAND (AP) - Federal prosecutors submitted videos of John Demjanjuk to an appeals court Thursday that show the alleged Nazi death camp guard walking and talking animatedly.

Prosecutors filed affidavits along with the April 6 videos at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They said the videos show a contrast from the 89-year-old man who groaned on April 14 as agents carried him from his home.

An arrest warrant claims Demjanjuk was an accessory to some 29,000 deaths during World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Cincinnati-based appeals court halted Demjanjuk's deportation shortly after immigration officers took him from his home.

The court has since requested detailed records about Demjanjuk's medical condition to see if he's healthy enough to travel.

In the affidavits, immigration agents said Demjanjuk appeared stiff when they tried to move him at his home on April 14. But later at the federal building in downtown Cleveland, he walked and appeared to become more mobile, the agents said.

When the appeals court granted the emergency stay a few hours later, Demjanjuk's family prepared to take him home.

"I helped him climb into the pickup truck, a Ford F-150, with a rather high seat," immigration agent Aaron Roby wrote in one affidavit. "He had no more difficulty than I would expect from someone his age getting into the truck, and he scooted over once he climbed in."

John Demjanjuk Jr. has said his father is so frail that even if given additional oxygen aboard an aircraft, he might not be able to breathe.

Demjanjuk Jr. said Thursday that the Justice Department's April 6 videos were taken as his father made his weekly trip to a doctor for a a shot that treats a blood disorder. His father's spinal pain can be horrific one day and better the next, he said.

"Just because he can walk and talk has absolutely no bearing on whether he can fly at 30,000 feet," Demjanjuk Jr. said.

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