95-year-old worked as a guard and contributed to countless prisoner deaths
A 2015 image of a former Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen, Austria. Pic/AFP
"The accused is believed to have been aware of all the methods of killing as well as the disastrous living conditions of the inmates," their statement said. A Berlin court must now decide whether the case against Hans H can proceed. Germany has been racing to put on trial surviving SS personnel, after the legal basis for prosecuting former Nazis changed in 2011 with the landmark conviction of former Ukrainian guard John Demjanjuk.
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