98-year-old German man charged with 3,300 counts of accessory to murder over his role in Nazi concentration camp
ยท Sep 4, 2023 ยท NottheBee.com

Late last year we noted what commentators thought might have been Germany's "last major Nazi war crime trial":

Alas, there are still a few more Nazis hanging around โ€” though thankfully Germany is getting as many of them as it can:

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.

The alleged Nazi has been accused of a whopping 3,300 counts of accessory to murder. If the case does indeed go to trial, the suspect will be tried as a juvenile. He could have been as young as 17 during the years in question.

Though not as well-known as Nazi Germany's most horrific concentration camps and death camps, Sachsenhausen was still a brutal place in which as many as 100,000 inmates lost their lives in roughly a decade.

The camp was located in Oranienburg, in northeastern Germany.


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