Former concentration camp guard, 93, goes on trial in Germany


  • World
  • Thursday, 17 Oct 2019

The 93-year-old German Bruno D. arrives for his trial in Hamburg court, Germany, October 17, 2019, accused of being an SS guard and involved in killings between August 1944 and April 1945, helping to murder thousands of prisoners, many of them Jewish, in the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland. On the right is his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp. Daniel Bockwoldt/Pool via REUTERS

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 93-year-old former concentration camp guard arrived in court in a wheelchair on Thursday, in what could be one of Germany's last trials of Nazi war crimes.

Bruno D., whose surname cannot be given for legal reasons, is accused of being an accessory to 5,230 murders in the final months of World War Two.

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