An 105-year-old man is being investigated in Germany over allegations he was an accessory to multiple counts of murder at a Nazi prisoner of war camp during World War II.
Prosecutors told German media "the 105-year-old suspect is thought to have been a guard at the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 326 VI K" in the Senne region of western Germany.
The man was "accused of being an accessory to multiple murders through his activities there".
More than 5.3 million soldiers from the Red Army were held in Germany captivity during World War II, with around half thought to have died, according to the memorial at the Senne camp.
The camp at Senne was one of the largest, with an estimated one in three Soviet PoWs entering Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945 going through the complex.
Soviet prisoners of war suffered from "malnutrition, inadequate medical care, appalling sanitary conditions, and... forced labour".
There has been no statute of limitations in Germany for either murder or accessory to murder offences since 1979 to enable the prosecution of Nazi-era crimes.
Four years ago, 101-year-old concentration camp guard Josef Schütz was given a five-year jail term for complicity in murder at Sachsenhausen.
He was the oldest Nazi criminal ever brought to justice, though he never served jail time and died while appealing his sentence in 2023.
In 2018, former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening died before he could begin serving his 4-year sentence.
Groening, dubbed the Accountant of Auschwitz, was convicted in Lueneburg in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews.
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