Dutch SS member Klaas-Carel Faber is facing prosecution in a German court. The German justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has instigated an investigation into the legal possibilities of bringing him to trial, reports Monday's Volkskrant.

The 88-year-old Faber, who came from a family of Nazi supporters, is believed to have executed at least 22 people.

He was sentenced to death by a Dutch court after the war, but the sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment. In 1952 he escaped from jail in Breda and settled in Germany, where he still lives.

In April 2008, relatives of Faber's victims urged the government to call on Germany to deport him and in 2009 he was included on the Weisenthal centre's list of most wanted war criminals.

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