German court sets trial for 100-year-old alleged Nazi guard

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Source: BBC

By Joshua Nevett

A 100-year-old alleged former guard at a Nazi concentration camp will stand trial in Germany accused of complicity in 3,518 murders, prosecutors say.

The unnamed suspect is accused of assisting in the murder of prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin between 1942 and 1945.

His alleged crimes include complicity in executions by firing squad and poisonous gas.

On Monday prosecutors confirmed the man would be fit to stand trial in October.

Prosecutors said the man underwent a medical assessment which, despite his advanced age, deemed him fit to appear in court for two-and-a-half hours per day.



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The Nazi SS imprisoned more than 200,000 people at the Sachsenhausen camp during World War Two

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1. The vast majority of concentration camp guards were SS.

Nominally, camp security was under the authority of an SS unit known as the Wachbattalion. Camp guards were either members of the SS-TV or Waffen-SS veterans rotated into the concentration camp system due to wounds in action or for some other administrative reason.

There were some Heer, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe personnel, but these were ad-hoc transfers, used when nothing else was available.

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2. It's never too late...

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