BERLIN (JTA) — A former Auschwitz guard, now 94, has been charged in Germany as an accomplice to 13,335 murders in the death camp.
State prosecutors in Stuttgart announced Monday that the man, from the state of Mannheim, is charged with supporting the genocide through his function as a guard and on-call member of the SS at the camp from December 1942 to January 1943.
The man, whose name has not been released, was charged in youth court since he was 19 years old while working at the camp.
The Mannheim Regional Court must decide whether the charge is admissible, and whether the …read more
Source: JTA
