Against a former concentration camp guard has been charged by the Berlin public Prosecutor’s office indictment. The 95-year-old man is accused of accessory to murder in the 36,000 cases, such as informing the Prosecutor’s office.

The then-21-year-old Accused should be guarded from the summer of 1944 until the spring of 1945 as a member of the “SS death’s head storm spell” in the Mauthausen concentration camp prisoners.

In the period should be at least 36.223 people have been killed by gassings, injections, shootings, as well as to Starve and Freeze to death. The former security guard should have been all the ways of Killing and methods are known, informed the Prosecutor’s office. He had to promote these killings by his activity”, or at least want to make it easier”. The concentration camp was located to the East of Linz in Austria today.

The indictment at such a late date, according to the Prosecutor’s office of a change in the jurisdiction of the Federal court of justice (decision of 20. September 2016 – 3 StR 49/16). Thereafter, such cases can be used as an accessory to murder, in which the accused have no personal involvement in specific killings can be demonstrated, but that they were involved as members of the guard units in the organised killing of the apparatus.

Currently, a trial against a former SS guard in the concentration camp Stutthof is running in Münster. The Dortmund-based focus-office of the public Prosecutor for Nazi crimes, accuses the defendants hundreds of times as an accessory to murder. The Romanian-born German should have done as an SS guard from 1942 to 1944 in the German concentration camp near Gdansk service.

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