Auschwitz crimes suspect, 95, faces trial
By Stephanie Halasz and Emily Smith, CNN
Updated 10:22 AM EST, Tue January 19, 2016
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A 95 year-old German man will go on trial next month for crimes allegedly committed during his time as a medical attendant at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, a district court in Germany said in a statement.
The man, identified as Hubert Z., is accused of being an accessory to at least 3,681 murders over a one month period in 1944.
Anne Frank and her family arrived at the notorious Nazi camp during this time, the statement said.
LUNEBURG, GERMANY - JULY 15: Oskar Groening, 94, a former member of the Waffen-SS who worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, awaits the verdict in his trial on July 15, 2015 in Lueneburg, Germany. Groening was accused of complicity in the murder of 300,000 mostly Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz in 1944. He worked as an accountant for the SS at Auschwitz and has admitted moral and personal responsibility for his role there. Groening has been convicted of being an accessory to murder, and sentenced to four years in prison. (Photo by Hans-Jurgen Wege/Getty Images)
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The prosecution alleges that the former SS member was aware killings were being conducted on an "industrial scale" at the camp.
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He previously spent four years in a Polish prison for crimes committed at Auschwitz during a different period of World War II.
It is unknown if he'll be fit to travel for trial, the statement said. Court proceedings are scheduled to start on February 29.
German courts typically identify defendants by their first name and the initial of their last name.
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