A 93-year-old former Nazi guard at Auschwitz will go on trial in Germany in April — the third such case to be tried in 2016.
A German court announced on Feb. 5 that the ex-Waffen SS guard, whose name has not been released, is fit to stand trial, Agence France-Press reported.
The defendant, who worked at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland between Nov. 1, 1942 and June 25, 1943, is being charged as an accessory to murder. The German court in Hanau said that at least three trains carrying deportees arrived at the camp on his watch.
“Of the deportees, at least 1,075 people were cruelly and maliciously killed in the gas chambers after their arrival in Auschwitz,” the court said in a statement, according to AFP.
Two other SS members from Auschwitz also are scheduled to stand trial in 2016: Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former guard, and Hubert Zafke, 95, an ex-medic. Both are charged with assisting in the killings of thousands at the camp. — jta