Germany prosecutes ex-Nazi camp guard aged 98

German prosecutors person charged a 98-year-old antheral with complicity successful the execution of immoderate 3,300 radical astatine a Nazi attraction campy successful World War Two.

The man, not yet named, was an teen erstwhile helium served arsenic a defender astatine Sachsenhausen betwixt July 1943 and February 1945, the indictment says.

He allegedly assisted successful the "cruel and insidious" wide sidesplitting of inmates.

Since 2011, Germany has prosecuted ex-Nazis for complicity - not lone for execution oregon torture arsenic individuals.

But it is simply a contention against time, arsenic those indicted person been precise aged and immoderate person died earlier going connected trial.

The Nazi SS imprisoned much than 200,000 radical astatine Sachsenhausen, including governmental prisoners, Jews, captured Soviet soldiers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies).

Tens of thousands of inmates died from starvation, forced labour, aesculapian experiments and execution by the SS. The campy was built northbound of Berlin successful 1936.

In the latest prosecution, the lawsuit volition beryllium handled by a juvenile court, fixed that the antheral was an teen astatine the clip of the crimes. He present lives successful Main-Kinzig, a agrarian territory successful cardinal Germany.

Last year, a 101-year-old, Josef Schütz, was recovered blameworthy of assisting successful wide execution astatine Sachsenhausen. He was fixed a five-year situation sentence, but died successful April this year, inactive escaped portion awaiting the result of an appeal.