A 100-year-old man who served as a guard at a Nazi Concentration Camp will stand trial in Germany, accused of being complicit in the death of 3,500 prisoners, after a medical assessment ruled him fit for trial, the BBC reports.
The unnamed man was a guard at the Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin between 1942 and 1945. Tens of thousands of prisoners at the camp died of starvation, hunger or assault, or in the camp’s extermination center.
More than three-quarters of a century after the end of the war, Germany officials have not stopped investigating and prosecuting people who committed crimes during the Holocaust, even as the number of them dwindle with age. A year ago, a 93-year-old was convicted for his actions during World War II, and in March, a 96-year-old was found to be unfit for trial.