https://www.historynet.com/100-year-old-to-stand-trial-for-alleged-nazi-war-crimes.htm100-Year-Old to Stand Trial For Alleged Nazi War Crimes
The memorial that honors the victims of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
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Claire Barrett
August 9, 2021
On August 1, the German weekly Welt am Sonntag reported that a 100-year-old man will stand trial for his alleged complicity in the killings of more than 3,500 people while working as a camp guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1942-1945.
In accordance with German media laws, the accused was not named but was said to have been complicit in executions by firing squad and poisonous gas. The charges against the accused, deemed fit by the court to stand trial this October, reflects a race against time to bring Nazi criminals to justice despite the nearly 80 years since the alleged crimes took place.
“It took a long time, which has not made things any easier, because now we are dealing with such elderly defendants,” Cyrill Klement, a prosecutor in Neuruppin, whose office pressed charges against the 100-year-old man, told the New York Times. “But murder and accessory to murder have no statute of limitation.”
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