Former SS guard, 94, weeps at testimony of Holocaust survivors

German who served Nazis at Stutthof concentration camp charged with being accessory to hundreds of murders

A former SS guard wept in the dock on the first day of his trial for complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp during the second world war.

The 94-year-old German from the western district of Borken, in the North Rhine-Westphalia state, served as a guard from June 1942 to September 1944 at the Stutthof camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland.

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