'Nazi war criminal' charged with 58 murders
Court in Germany charges 90-year-old man with murder of 58 Jewish forced labourers at end of second world war
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Wednesday, 18, Nov 2009 10:21
By Matthew Champion.
A court in Germany has charged a 90-year-old man with the murder of 58 Jewish labourers in the final days of the second world war.
Charges filed at a court in Duisburg by the state office responsible for prosecuting Nazi war crimes accused the unnamed man with carrying out the executions as allied troops flooded into Germany.
The charges, to which the man has two weeks to respond, say the former SS member brought at least 57 forced labourers on March 29th 1945 to a wooded area on the Austrian-Hungarian border.
There they were forced to give up their valuables before "accused and other SS members then shot the Jewish forced labourers cruelly from the back," the court said.
On the following day he led other forced labourers in a march to Jabing, in modern day Austria, before gunning down a 58th labourer, again in the back.