Former guard at Nazi death camp charged with being accessory to murder

Ninety-eight-year-old man accused of having supported killing of thousands of prisoners at Sachsenhausen during Holocaust

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.

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. They did not release the suspect’s name.