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Al Jazeera EnglishAn 88-year-old former member of the Waffen SS has gone on trial in Germany over the second world war killings of three civilians in The Netherlands.
Heinrich Boere, who face son three counts of murder, admitted the killings to Dutch authorities when he was in captivity after the war but has managed to avoid prosecution for decades.
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Boere is charged with killing three men: Frans Kusters, a member of the Dutch resistance; Fritz Bicknese, a chemist; and Teun de Groot, a bicycle seller who helped hide Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.
He was captured by US forces in The Netherlands after the war.
Boere confessed to killing the three civilians in 1944 while a member of an SS death squad which hunted anti-Nazi resistance fighters.
He escaped and fled to Germany before being sentenced to death in absentia in the Netherlands in 1949, a sentence that was later reduced to life in prison.
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The article later says it took them 18 years after refusing extradition to finally make him face trial. What took them so long?