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Ex-SS medic, 94, charged over Auschwitz deaths
Source: BBC
23 February 2015 Last updated at 18:42 GMT
Ex-SS medic, 94, charged over Auschwitz deaths
A 94-year-old man has been charged with 3,681 counts of accessory to murder in Germany on allegations he served at Auschwitz.
Prosecutors said the defendant was a former SS sergeant, who acted as a medical officer at the Nazi concentration camp in 1944.
If found guilty he could face a jail term ranging from three to 15 years.
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Prosecutors in Schwerin in northern Germany said they could not name the man because of privacy laws.
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Ex-SS medic, 94, charged over Auschwitz deaths
A 94-year-old man has been charged with 3,681 counts of accessory to murder in Germany on allegations he served at Auschwitz.
Prosecutors said the defendant was a former SS sergeant, who acted as a medical officer at the Nazi concentration camp in 1944.
If found guilty he could face a jail term ranging from three to 15 years.
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Prosecutors in Schwerin in northern Germany said they could not name the man because of privacy laws.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31595338
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