BERLIN (Reuters) Suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk will go on trial in early November on charges of helping to kill 27,900 Jews during World War Two, a German court said Friday.

The case against the 89-year-old retired U.S. auto worker is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era war crimes trial.

Demjanjuk, long wanted by the Simon Wiesenthal Center which hunts Nazi war crimes suspects, was deported from the United States in May and has been in jail near Munich ever since.

The court said it had authorized the trial to go ahead and ordered he remain in custody until then.

"The trial will probably begin at the start of November ... no date has been set," the Munich court said in a statement.