Ex-SS camp guard, aged 100, on trial for 3,518 deaths

The picture shows the empty seat of the accused 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, at a courtroom, before a trial against her, in Itzehoe Germany, September 30, 2021. Markus Schreiber/Pool via REUTERS

NEURUPPIN, Germany (Reuters) - A former SS guard, now 100 years old, hobbled into a German courtroom on a walking frame on Thursday to face charges of helping to send more than 3,000 people to their deaths in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two.

Prosecutors say Josef S., a member of the Nazi party's paramilitary SS, contributed to the deaths of 3,518 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp by regularly standing guard in the watchtower between 1942 and 1945.