Nazi concentration camp guard to stand trial in Germany
The 92-year old German has reportedly admitted to being present at the camp, knowing that people were pushed into gas chambers and seeing bodies being burnt in the crematorium
08 August 2019 - 16:27
Berlin — A 92-year old German man will go on trial in October charged with helping to murder 5,230 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi death camp in World War Two, prosecutors said on Thursday.
In what will be one of the last cases against Nazi-era crimes, Bruno D is accused of being an SS guard in the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, in what is today Poland, and of being involved in killings between August 1944 and April 1945...
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