MUENSTER, Germany (AP) — A 94-year-old former enlisted SS man went on trial Tuesday in Germany, charged with being an accessory to murder for crimes committed during the years he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp. Many survivors, along with relatives of victims, are also joining the trial as co-plaintiffs as allowed under German law. Even though the number of suspects is dwindling, the special federal prosecutor’s office in Ludwigsburg that investigates Nazi war crimes still has multiple cases ongoing. Demjanjuk was convicted in Munich on allegations he served as a Sobibor death camp guard. The Stutthof case is the first time a prosecution is going to trial using this line of reasoning for a concentration camp guard instead of a death camp guard.

Source: Huffington Post November 06, 2018 13:18 UTC