A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said on Friday.
The German national, a resident of the Main-Kinzig district near Frankfurt, is accused of “supporting the brutal and malicious murder of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement.
They did not release the suspect’s name.
He was charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945.
The indictment was filed in the state court in Hanau, which must now decide whether to send the case to trial.
If it does, he will be tried under juvenile law, taking into account his age at the time of the alleged crime.
A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazi Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945. AFP via Getty Images
German prosecutors have brought several cases under a precedent set in recent years that allows people who helped Nazi camps function to be charged as accessories to the murder. AFP via Getty Images
The prosecutor said that the psychiatrist’s report last October found that the suspect was fit to be tried at least on a limited basis.
German prosecutors have brought several cases under a precedent set in recent years that allows people who helped Nazi camps function to be charged as accessories to murders there without direct evidence that they participated in a particular murder.
Charges of murder and accessory to murder are not subject to a statute of limitations under German law.
The suspect, whose name has not yet been released, has been charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder. AP
More than 200,000 people were held in Sachsenhausen, just north of Berlin, between 1936 and 1945.
Tens of thousands died from starvation, disease, forced labor and other causes, as well as through medical experiments and systematic extermination operations of the SS including shootings, hangings and hangings.
The exact number of those killed varies, with an upper estimate of around 100,000, although scholars suggest a figure of 40,000 to 50,000 may be more accurate.
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