Overview
- The Dortmund public prosecutor's office is investigating a former guard from the Stalag VI A prisoner-of-war camp who is now 100 years old.
- Prosecutors allege the suspect took part in killing actions at the camp from 6 December 1943 to at least 22 September 1944.
- The case was initiated by the Central Office in Ludwigsburg and transferred to Dortmund after preliminary inquiries.
- Senior prosecutor Andreas Brendel says the investigation is ongoing and no further details are being released at this time.
- Stalag VI A held more than 200,000 POWs between 1939 and 1945, about 24,000 died under catastrophic conditions or were killed, and many prisoners were Soviet soldiers alongside Poles, French, Belgians and Britons.