100 Year-Old Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Ordered To Stand Trial

A German high court has ruled a former Nazi concentration camp guard must stand trial.

Former Nazi concentration camp guard Gregor Formanek will stand trial for “aiding and abetting murder in 3,322 cases while working at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin between July 1943 and February 1945.”

A lower court previously ruled Formanek was unfit to stand trial, but the higher regional court in Frankfurt overturned the lower court’s decision.

Formanek, a former member of the Sachsenhausen battalion, is expected to have a trial in 2025.

Court rules former Nazi camp guard, 100, can face trial in Germanyhttps://t.co/rPeHIFgrOB

— John Greenewald, Jr. (@blackvaultcom) December 3, 2024

Here’s what the Guardian reported:

German authorities are pressing for a 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to face trial almost 80 years after the end of the second world war.

The higher regional court in Frankfurt said on Tuesday it had overturned a decision by a lower court under which the suspect had been deemed unfit to stand trial.

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The suspect, named as Gregor Formanek by German media, was charged last year with aiding and abetting murder in 3,322 cases while working at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin between July 1943 and February 1945.

However, an expert determined in February that Formanek was not fit to stand trial due to his mental and physical condition and the court in Hanau decided not to open the proceedings against him.

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— Trisha Posner (@trishaposner) December 3, 2024

Per The Mirror:

A 100-year-old concentration camp guard dubbed last Nazi should stand trial accused of murdering 3,300 Holocaust victims, the German high court has ruled.

Gregor Formanek had successfully appealed a decision to put him on trial for the “cruel and treacherous killing” of victims at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, back in May. The Hanau Regional Court excused him from prosecution, based on medical evidence declaring that he had a “permanent incapacity to stand trial”.

But now the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court has overturned that decision and sent the case back to Hanau for another hearing. This means that Formanek is likely to face trial early in 2025. Born in Romania, Formanek was the son of a German-speaking master tailor and joined the SS in July 1943 as a member of the notorious Sachsenhausen battalion.