Germany investigates alleged 105-year-old Nazi POW camp guard

German prosecutors said Thursday they are investigating a 105-year-old man suspected of serving as a guard at Stalag 326 VI K, a prisoner-of-war camp in western Germany that held up to 200,000 Soviet soldiers between 1941 and 1945. He is accused of being an accessory to multiple murders committed at the site.

The camp memorial estimates between 2.3 and 3 million of the roughly 5.3 to 5.7 million Soviet POWs captured by Germany did not survive, citing malnutrition, poor sanitation and forced labor. A separate case against a 100-year-old former guard at another camp opened last year.

Recent history suggests these prosecutions often outrun their defendants: Josef Schuetz died less than a year after his 2022 conviction, and a Sachsenhausen suspect died this April before trial.

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