German prosecutors open case against 105-year-old suspect in WWII POW camp murders
German prosecutors in Dortmund have opened an investigation into a 105-year-old man suspected of serving as a guard at the Stalag 326 VI K prisoner-of-war camp in Senne. The suspect is accused of being an accessory to multiple murders involving Soviet prisoners held between 1941 and 1945. This case follows the death of a second former guard from the same camp and highlights the urgent, though increasingly difficult, efforts to prosecute Nazi-era crimes before remaining suspects die. No statute of limitations applies to these charges in Germany.
