Germany’s two latest alleged Nazi war criminals facing trial have never met and, between them, are 195 years old. He is accused of serving as an SS guard for three years at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of the German capital. In 2011 a Munich court found John Demjanjuk guilty of being an accessory to murder, as a camp guard, in the deaths of 28,000 people in the Sobibor camp. File photo of convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk leaving a courtroom in Munich on May 12th, 2011. It also casts an unflattering light on Germany’s legal and political establishment, and their dwindling interest in prosecuting senior Nazi war criminals in the post-war decades.

Source: The Irish Times February 10, 2021 20:26 UTC