BERLIN (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Germany will soon get files on former guards at a Nazi death camp who could still be charged for their role in the Holocaust, the country's top war-crimes investigator said on Tuesday, although he added that lack of evidence will keep many of the cases from going to trial.
"These investigations are largely completed," Kurt Schrimm, the head of the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, told reporters. In the next two weeks, he said, the files will be handed over to prosecutors, who will then decide whether to press charges.
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