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100-year-old Nazi camp guard will stand trial in Germany accused of complicity in 3,518 murders
A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will face trial in October accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,518 people.
The accused, who has not been named in accordance with German law, is said to have worked at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near from 1942 to 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing.
Around 200,000 people were imprisoned in the camp, tens of thousands of whom were killed.
The man's trial is slated to start in October after the prosecutor's office in Neuruppin, which first brought the charges in February, received a medical assessment which confirmed the man is 'fit to stand trial' despite his advanced age.
A spokesman from the Neuruppin district court told German weekly Welt am Sonntag that the defendant should be able to stand trial for two to two-and-a-half hours a day.
The suspect is accused of 'knowingly and willingly' assisting in the murder of prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
He is accused notably of complicity in the 'execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942' and the murder of prisoners 'using the poisonous gas Zyklon B'.
While the number of suspects in Nazi war crimes is dwindling, prosecutors are still working to bring individuals to justice.
The landmark conviction of John Demjanjuk in 2011 cleared the way for more prosecutions as working in a concentration camp was for the first time found to be grounds for culpability with no proof of a specific crime.
In July, German authorities confirmed they were investigating a 95-year-old man for his role as a Nazi guard at a prisoner of war camp where many Soviet soldiers died during World War II.
At the end of March, prosecutors announced they had dropped a case against a 95-year-old former Nazi death camp guard recently deported by the United States, due to a 'lack of sufficient suspicion'.
100-year-old Nazi camp guard will stand trial in Germany accused of complicity in 3,518 murders
A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will face trial in October accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,518 people.
The accused, who has not been named in accordance with German law, is said to have worked at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near from 1942 to 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing.
Around 200,000 people were imprisoned in the camp, tens of thousands of whom were killed.
The man's trial is slated to start in October after the prosecutor's office in Neuruppin, which first brought the charges in February, received a medical assessment which confirmed the man is 'fit to stand trial' despite his advanced age.
A spokesman from the Neuruppin district court told German weekly Welt am Sonntag that the defendant should be able to stand trial for two to two-and-a-half hours a day.
The suspect is accused of 'knowingly and willingly' assisting in the murder of prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
He is accused notably of complicity in the 'execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942' and the murder of prisoners 'using the poisonous gas Zyklon B'.
While the number of suspects in Nazi war crimes is dwindling, prosecutors are still working to bring individuals to justice.
The landmark conviction of John Demjanjuk in 2011 cleared the way for more prosecutions as working in a concentration camp was for the first time found to be grounds for culpability with no proof of a specific crime.
In July, German authorities confirmed they were investigating a 95-year-old man for his role as a Nazi guard at a prisoner of war camp where many Soviet soldiers died during World War II.
At the end of March, prosecutors announced they had dropped a case against a 95-year-old former Nazi death camp guard recently deported by the United States, due to a 'lack of sufficient suspicion'.
