Germany charges 95-year-old Nazi death camp guard
German prosecutors have charged a 95-year-old man with being an accessory to the deaths of tens of thousands of inmates at an Austrian Nazi death camp.
Identified only as Hans H for legal reasons, the Berlin resident is alleged to have been a guard at Mauthausen from mid-1944 to early 1945, BBC reported.
A statement from the Berlin prosecutor's office accuses him of being part of the killing operation.
Half of the 190,000 people held at Mauthausen, Austria's largest Nazi death camp, were killed. Hans H is accused of being an accessory to the deaths of 36,223 of them.
Many were worked to death through slave labour, gassed, shot, injected, starved or succumbed to freezing conditions.
The prosecutor's statement says the accused, who served in a Nazi SS unit, was aware of "all the killing methods as well as the disastrous living conditions of the incarcerated people at the camp". It alleges he supported, or at least made "easier the many thousands of deaths carried out by the main perpetrator".
It is now up to a Berlin court to decide if his case goes to trial.