Neuruppin District Court allows prosecution charges of complicity in killing 3,500 people
A 100-year-old former guard at the Nazi Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin will stand trial this fall, 76 years after the end of World War II, the German weekly Welt am Sontag reported today, quoted by Reuters.
The Neuruppin District Court has admitted to prosecution charges of complicity in the murder of 3,500 people, and the trial is set to begin in October. The accused, given his advanced age, should be able to appear in court for 2 to 2.5 hours a day, a court spokesman told the newspaper.
The accused, whose name is not mentioned in accordance with German data protection laws, is alleged to have operated the Sachsenhausen camp between January 1942 and February 1945, through which 200,000 prisoners passed, of which 20,000 were killed.
Although the number of people involved in Nazi crimes has been declining over the years, German prosecutors are still trying to bring individuals to justice, Reuters reports.
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