A 93-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp will go on trial in Germany on Thursday on the charge of being an accessory to thousands of murders.
The man, known as"Bruno D," will face a Hamburg court over the deaths of 5,230 people after he joined the SS as a guard between August 1944 and April 1945.According to the indictment, the defendant knowingly supported the"insidious and cruel killing" in Poland's Stutthof concentration camp.The former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof in Sztutowo, northern Poland.
Despite his advanced age, the defendant is being tried in a youth court because he was 17 years old when he joined the SS as a guard at the camp, according to a press release from Hamburg's district court. Read MoreBruno D will only stand trial for two hours a day because of his health, according to court documents. Romania to open its first Holocaust museumStutthof was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp located 22 miles east of Danzig -- now Gdańsk -- in Poland.
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