BERLIN — Germany’s Central Office for Investigation of Nazi Crimes hands nine potential new cases against former concentration camp guards to prosecutors in Germany and Austria.
If tried, the nine men and women — who variously live in both countries — would be charged as accessories to murder in several camps. The cases, already investigated by the Central Office in Ludwigsburg, are handed to local prosecutors for potential indictment, according to news reports in the Berlin-based daily Taz newspaper, and elsewhere.
Jean Rommel, who heads the Central Office in Ludwigsburg, Germany, confirms to German news media that the nine men and women, most of them in their 90s, were stationed at the Ravensbrück and Buchenwald concentration camps in Germany, at Mauthausen in Austria, and at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
— JTA
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