A former SS guard, aged 94, has gone on trial in Germany charged with complicity in mass murders at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
The man from the western district of Borken served as a watchman from June 1942 to September 1944 at the Stutthof camp near what was then the free city of Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland.
He was not publicly named by prosecutors, but Die Welt daily identifies him as Johann R., a landscape architect who once worked for North Rhine-Westphalia state authorities.
A justice officer pushes the 94-years-old defendant, a former SS guard, in a wheelchair to the courtroom for his trial at the regional court in Muenster, western Germany, on November 6, 2018. The man’s face has been blurred at the request of the German court. (Guido Kirchner/dpa/AFP)
Dressed in a wool suit, the accused entered the courtroom in a wheelchair, with a walking stick in his right hand.
He is accused of being an accessory to the murders of several hundred camp prisoners, the regional court of Muenster says, more than seven decades after the end of WWII.
These included more than 100 Polish prisoners gassed on June 21 and 22, 1944, as well as “probably several hundred” Jewish prisoners killed from August to December 1944 as part of the Nazis’ so-called “Final Solution.”
— AFP
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