The accused allegedly labored on the former focus camp in Sachsenhausen as a jail guard from 1942-1945, throughout which era tens of 1000’s of prisoners died on the camp on account of pressured labor, starvation, illness, medical experiments and mistreatment.
Greater than 200,000 folks have been interned on the focus camp, which is positioned on the outskirts of Berlin, between 1936 and 1945.
“The defendant is accused of getting aided and abetted merciless and insidious homicide” on the focus camp, in keeping with the indictment.
His fees “embrace the capturing of Soviet prisoners of struggle in 1942, aiding and abetting the homicide of prisoners by way of using poison fuel, in addition to different shootings and the killing of prisoners by creating and sustaining hostile situations within the former Sachsenhausen focus camp.”
Prosecutors haven’t named the centenarian in keeping with German privateness legal guidelines.
Regardless of his age, the person has been deemed capable of stand trial. Court docket hearings will final between two and two and a half hours a day. The courtroom has scheduled a complete of twenty-two trial dates.
Germany is racing in opposition to time to carry the final surviving perpetrators of Nazi struggle crimes — now nicely into outdated age — to justice.
