German court sets trial date for ex-Nazi guard turning 100 – Times of India

BERLIN: A German court has set a trial date for a 100-year-old man who has been charged with 3,518 counts of murder. Nazi SS During the guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin world War Second.
a spokesperson for neurupin The state court said on Monday that the trial is set to begin in early October. The name of the century was not issued in line with German secrecy laws.
It is alleged that the accused used to work here sachsenhausen camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of Nazi Partyparamilitary branch of
Authorities say that despite his age, the suspect is deemed fit enough to stand trial, although court sessions may limit the number of hours per day.
The Neurepin office was tasked in 2019 by the Special Federal Prosecutors’ Office in Ludwigsburg to investigate Nazi-era war crimes. The state court in Neruppin is located northwest of the city of Oranienburg, where Sachsenhausen was located.
Local media reported that the defendant resides in the state of Brandenburg, outside Berlin.
Sachsenhausen was founded in 1936 as the first new camp north of Berlin Adolf Hitler Gave full control of the Nazi concentration camp system to the SS. It was intended to be a model facility and training camp for the Maze Network that the Nazis had built. Germany, Austria and the Occupied Territories.
More than 200,000 people were housed there between 1936 and 1945. There tens of thousands of prisoners died from starvation, disease, forced labor and other causes, as well as through medical experiments and systematic SS extermination operations including shootings, hangings and gasping.

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