Photo: DPAGerman prosecutors called Thursday for the case of a 96-year-old former Nazi medical orderly at the Auschwitz death camp to be thrown out because he is deemed unfit for trial. The prosecutors' move Thursday effectively ends proceedings against one of the last defendants accused of crimes at Auschwitz. Urbanek said prosecutors were required by law after receiving this independent medical evaluation to submit a motion to dismiss the case. In later depositions, he acknowledged his presence but said he was unaware of the gas chambers and crematoria at the death camp until after the end of the war. All were tried using a new standard of evidence: that it was sufficient to work at a death camp to be prosecuted, even without proof of a link to specific deaths.

Source: The Local August 31, 2017 12:00 UTC