Germany, on trial of a 100-year Nazi guard: she is accused of complicity in 3,518 murders

A 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard will be tried in Germany in October on charges of complicity in 3,518 murders. Prosecutors announced this, according to the Guardian. The Neuruppin locality prosecutor’s office, which first filed the charges in February, received a medical evaluation that confirmed the man is “capable of standing trial” despite his advanced age. limited to two and a half hours a day, according to the prosecutors. The suspect is accused of having “knowingly and voluntarily” witnessed the murder of prisoners in the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. accused in particular of complicity in the “execution by shooting of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942” and in the murder of prisoners “using the poisonous gas Zyklon B”. It is said that the accused, who remained anonymous in line with the law privacy policy, lives in the state of Brandenburg outside Berlin, local media reported. Thomas Walther, a lawyer representing some of the victims of the case, told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that ” many of the co-complainants are the same age as the accused and expect justice to be done. ” Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 as the first new camp after Adolf Hitler gave the SS full control of the Nazi concentration camp system. More than 200,000 people were detained there between 1936 and 1945, and tens of thousands died from starvation, disease, forced labor and other causes, as well as through medical experiments and systematic homicides perpetrated by the SS with shooting, hanging and gas.