A 98-Year-Old German Man Is Charged as an Accessory to Murder at a Nazi Concentration Camp

A 98-Year-Old German Man Is Charged as an Accessory to Murder at a Nazi Concentration Camp
Wreaths at the memorial wall of the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen after a ceremony marking the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Oranienburg, Germany, on April 18, 2023. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
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BERLIN—A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.

The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspect’s name.