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German Former Camp Guard (105) Charged with WWII Murders
Prosecutors in Dortmund have opened an investigation into a 105-year-old man who served as a guard at Stalag VI-K Senne during World War II. He is suspected of murdering prisoners and assisting in other killings while aged between 20 and 24. The camp, located near Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock in North Rhine-Westphalia, held hundreds of thousands of soldiers, primarily from the Soviet Union, between 1941 and 1945. This case follows legal precedents established by convictions of elderly former Nazi personnel, such as John Demjanjuk, which determined that working in a camp constitutes complicity in murder without requiring proof of direct personal involvement.
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