A 94-year-old German man is to go on trial in a juvenile court accused of being an accessory to hundreds of murders in a Nazi concentration campduring the second world war. The man, who has not been named for legal reasons, will be tried in a juvenile court because he was under 21 at the time of the alleged crimes. German prosecutors have been keen to see as many perpetrators of Nazi crimes put on trial as possible, but the few remaining suspects are now in extreme old age. That is creating its own problems beyond the unusual sight of a nonagenarian being tried in a juvenile court. The woman who was born in Auschwitz Read moreIn another case, it was undecided whether a 93-year-old was mentally fit to undergo trial for alleged wartime crimes.

Source: The Guardian September 21, 2018 15:52 UTC