German prosecutors prepare dozen-plus cases against Nazi war-crime suspects

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German prosecutors prepare dozen-plus cases against Nazi war-crime suspects

“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.

August 11, 2021

Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Prosecutors confirmed last week that a 100-year-old man is deemed fit to stand trial in October for serving as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and for his alleged complicity in the killings of more than 3,500 people between 1942 and 1945. The man, whose name was not released, was also allegedly involved in the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war and helped kill others with the poison gas Zyklon B, according to JTA.

Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old woman, will also face trial this year for her alleged work as a secretary in the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, according to The Washington Post. She will be tried at a juvenile court because she was a teenager at the time of the crime.

https://www.jns.org/german-prosecuto...rime-suspects/

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They should have done that earlier, when they were young, and it would mean something to punish them, they will be 1 or a half year in a prison, and die, or die at the court trial. I guess they didnt, because nazi crimes were under investigated and under punished. So many nazi murders lived peaceful lives to old age.