A 92-year-old former SS private will go on trial this fall in
Germany on 5,230 counts of being an accessory to murder, accused of helping the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp function, a Hamburg court said Thursday.
"Surveillance was necessary for the concentration camp to function, and the camp was made to kill people," Hamburg state court spokesman Kai Wantzen said of the prosecution's argument.
Wantzen said the suspect did not deny to authorities that he had served in Stutthof and said he was aware people were being killed.