German prosecutors are going to prosecute a centenarian man because he may have been a guard at the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp. The man is charged with 3,518 murder cases. The man is said to have worked in the camp from 1942 to 1945, where about 100,000 people died.
The suspect is said to have knowingly contributed to the murder of prisoners in the concentration camp.
Since 2011, prosecutors no longer have to search for almost untraceable evidence of the acts committed by a suspect during World War II.
If it can be proven that someone was already employed in a camp where, for example, systematic mass murders took place, that could be enough reason for a conviction.
At least 200,000 prisoners were held in Sachsenhausen
Sachsenhausen was built by prisoners in 1936. At first there were political prisoners, but then also Jews, Roma, homosexuals and the mentally handicapped.
There are no reliable figures on the number of people imprisoned in the camp in the first years. Between 1939 and 1945, Sachsenhausen housed about 200,000 prisoners.
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