98-Year-Old Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Charged

There is no statute of limitation when it comes to war crimes in Germany.

Germany has charged a 98-year-old former Nazi concentration guard for being an accessory to murder.

German authorities announced that the 98-year-old former Nazi concentration guard has been indicted for “abetting the murder of over 3,300 people during the Holocaust.”

Due to German privacy law, the name of the man was not announced.

The man who has been charged was a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1943 to 1945.

He was a minor at the time so he will stand before a juvenile court which makes the charges even more bizarre.

A 98-year-old former guard at a Nazi camp has been charged in Germany for his role in the Holocaust. The defendant is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing” of more than 3,300 people from 1943 to 1945, German prosecutors said. https://t.co/PvTES2DUDD

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 6, 2023

Former Nazi camp guard, 98, charged with 3,330 counts of accessory to murderhttps://t.co/49yZH5h2Wf

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 1, 2023

CNN had these details to add:

A 98-year-old former Nazi concentration guard has been indicted on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of more than 3,300 people during the Holocaust, German authorities said on Friday.

The man’s name was not made public by prosecutors, in accordance with German privacy laws.

The public prosecutor in the western city of Giessen, near Frankfurt, said in a statement that the man worked at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.

The man, who was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes, is accused of “having assisted in the cruel and insidious killing of thousands of prisoners,” prosecutors said.

The man will face a juvenile court because he was under the age of 18 when he served at Sachsenhausen. The statement added that the trial is expected to be in Hanau, close to the man’s home, in accordance with juvenile law.

Former guard at Nazi death camp charged with being accessory to murder https://t.co/huaGQ6mRcZ

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) September 1, 2023

Per AP:

A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.

The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspect’s name.

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He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945. The indictment was filed at the state court in Hanau, which will now have to decide whether to send the case to trial. If it does, he will tried under juvenile law, taking account of his age at the time of the alleged crimes.