Frankfurt - German prosecutors on Friday charged a 96-year-old
former SS guard at a Nazi death camp of complicity in the murder of
prisoners in one of the last cases dating back to the Third Reich.
The man, who now lives in Frankfurt, was 22 years old when he worked
at the Lublin-Majdanek camp in occupied Poland between August 1943
and January 1944.
The Frankfurt prosecutor's office said that like all other SS members
of the camp, which formed a part of the Nazi death machine, he must
have known about the organized mass killing that took place.
Skeletons people tortured to death and burned lie near ovens of the crematorium operated by the Nazis in Lublin, Poland. Picture: Sovfoto via AP
As a guard, he is alleged to have been involved in the mass shooting
of at least 17 000 Jews in November 1943.
Prisoner's shoes on display at barrack 52 in the State Museum at Majdanek, former Nazi German Concentration Camp, in Lublin. Handout picture: MAJDANEK STATE MUSEUM
Public prosecutor Nadja Niesen told dpa that despite his age the man
was fit to stand trial.
The Frankfurt district court now has to decide whether to proceed
with the case.