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German prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man with complicity in the murder of some 3,300 people in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.
The man, still unidentified, was a teenager when he served as a guard at Sachsenhausen between July 1943 and February 1945, according to the indictment.
He is suspected of having helped in the "cruel and insidious" mass murder of prisoners. Since 2011, Germany has accused former Nazis of collaboration, not just murder or torture as individuals.
But it is a race against time, as the defendants have been very old and some have died before going to trial.
The SS Nazis imprisoned more than 200,000 people in Sachsenhausen, including political prisoners, Jews, captured Soviet soldiers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies).
Tens of thousands of prisoners died of starvation, forced labor, medical experiments and murder by the SS. The camp was built north of Berlin in 1936.
The case will be handled by a juvenile court, since the person was a teenager at the time of the crimes. He now lives in Main-Kinzig, a rural district in central Germany.
Last year, a 101-year-old, Josef Schütz, was found guilty of assisting the mass murder in Sachsenhausen. He was sentenced to five years in prison, but died in April this year, still awaiting the outcome of an appeal./CNN
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