German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old man with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served during World War II as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin, authorities say.
The man is alleged to have worked at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing, says Cyrill Klement, who led the investigation of the centenarian for the Neuruppin prosecutors’ office.
Visitors are seen at the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, eastern Germany, on August 7, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
The man’s name isn’t released in line with German privacy laws. Despite his advanced age, the suspect is considered fit enough to stand trial, though accommodations may have to be made to limit how many hours per day the court is in session, Klement says.
The Neuruppin office was handed the case in 2019 by the special federal prosecutors’ office in Ludwigsburg tasked with investigating Nazi-era war crimes, he says.
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