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SUSPECTED Nazi death camp guard has been charged over the
murders of 430,000 Jews.
Samuel Kunz, 88, allegedly served Hitler's Third Reich in the
Belzec camp in occupied Poland during World War Two.
He is number three on a most wanted list of ex Nazis.
Kunz was charged after prosecutors
said he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943
where it is claimed he helped exterminate Jews.
He is also accused of the shooting
a total of ten Jews in two other incidents.
Top Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff said
Kunz participated in the so-called Operation Reinhard to
eliminate Polish Jews.
Mr Zuroff, from the Simon Wiesenthal
Center which fights anti-Semitism, said: "The indictment of Samuel Kunz is a very positive development.
"It reflects recent changes
in the German prosecution policy, which have significantly
enlarged the number of suspects who will be brought to justice."
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German officials are now considering
whether and when to hold a trial.
Kunz was found living near the western
German city of Bonn after his name came up in investigations
connected to the trial of another suspected Nazi John Demjanjuk.
Demjanjuk, 90, is currently on trial
in Munich on charges of being an accessory to the murder
of 28,060 Jews as a guard at Poland's Sobibor death camp.
He denies he was ever a camp guard.
Prosecutors allege both Kunz and Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk,
a retired Ohio car worker who was deported to Germany from
the US last year, trained as guards at the Trawniki SS
camp.
Kunz, whose family is German, was
born in August 1921 on Russia's Volga River and joined the
Red Army, claims Klaus Hillenbrand, a German expert who has
written several books on the Nazi period.
But during World War Two he was captured
by the Germans and given the choice of either staying at
a prisoner of war camp or cooperating with the Nazis, said
Hillenbrand.
Adolf Storms, a 90-year-old former
SS sergeant who was number four on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's
list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects, died earlier
this month before he could be brought to trial.
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