Originally Posted by g300d

Ah, yes, definitely a possibility as well!

You can check that by cracking open a fuel line while trying to start the engine, to see if there is fuel.

Or listening by the electric fuel pump and have an assistant turn ignition, you should hear the pump work?

Never had to consider that on my old German diesels, they had mechanical fuel inection (W123 and W124 Mercedes 300D's).