German prosecutors investigate 105-year-old for crimes at Nazi PoW camp
The suspect is alleged to have been an accessory to murder at the Stalag 326 camp, where tens of thousands of Soviet PoWs died.
A 105-year-old man is currently under investigation by German prosecutors for potential crimes committed at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. The suspect is believed to have been a guard at Stalag 326 VI K in the Senne region of western Germany, where he is accused of accessory to multiple murders. The camp, which held between 180,000 and 200,000 Soviet prisoners of war from 1941 to April 1945, was liberated by American troops.
The case has been previously reported by Bild, which also noted that another former guard at the same camp had been investigated and died in the interim. The Senne camp's inmates suffered from malnutrition, inadequate medical care, poor sanitation, and forced labor, and between 2.3 and 3 million of the approximately 5.3 to 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of war taken into German captivity did not survive.
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