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98-year-old German charged in thousands of Holocaust deaths at Nazi camp
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BERLIN — A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an
accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen
concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.
The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt,
is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of
thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,”
prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the
suspect’s name.
He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to
murder between July 1943 and February 1945. The indictment was filed
at the state court in Hanau, which will now have to decide whether
to send the case to trial. If it does, he will be tried under
juvenile law, taking account of his age at the time of the alleged
crimes.
Prosecutors said that a report by a psychiatric expert last October
found that the suspect is fit to stand trial at least on a limited
basis.
German prosecutors have brought several cases under a precedent set
in recent years that allows for people who helped a Nazi camp
function to be prosecuted as an accessory to the murders there
without direct evidence that they participated in a specific
killing.
Charges of murder and being an accessory to murder aren’t subject to
a statute of limitations under German law.
More than 200,000 people were held at Sachsenhausen, just north of
Berlin, between 1936 and 1945. Tens of thousands died of starvation,
disease, forced labor and other causes, as well as through medical
experiments and systematic SS extermination operations including
shootings, hangings and gassing.
Exact numbers for those killed vary, with upper estimates of some
100,000, though scholars suggest figures of 40,000 to 50,000 are
likely more accurate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/98-year-old-german-charged-
thousands-holocaust-deaths-nazi-camp-rcna103082
BERLIN — A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an
accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen
concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.
The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt,
is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of
thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,”
prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the
suspect’s name.
He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to
murder between July 1943 and February 1945. The indictment was filed
at the state court in Hanau, which will now have to decide whether
to send the case to trial. If it does, he will be tried under
juvenile law, taking account of his age at the time of the alleged
crimes.
Prosecutors said that a report by a psychiatric expert last October
found that the suspect is fit to stand trial at least on a limited
basis.
German prosecutors have brought several cases under a precedent set
in recent years that allows for people who helped a Nazi camp
function to be prosecuted as an accessory to the murders there
without direct evidence that they participated in a specific
killing.
Charges of murder and being an accessory to murder aren’t subject to
a statute of limitations under German law.
More than 200,000 people were held at Sachsenhausen, just north of
Berlin, between 1936 and 1945. Tens of thousands died of starvation,
disease, forced labor and other causes, as well as through medical
experiments and systematic SS extermination operations including
shootings, hangings and gassing.
Exact numbers for those killed vary, with upper estimates of some
100,000, though scholars suggest figures of 40,000 to 50,000 are
likely more accurate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/98-year-old-german-charged-
thousands-holocaust-deaths-nazi-camp-rcna103082
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