German
prosecutors are examining the case of an 87-year-old Nazi
suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz
death camp.
The former SS man is not German, nor is he living in Germany.
He was allegedly a camp guard in 1944,
when about 344,000 Jews from Hungary were murdered in the
Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers in occupied Poland.
Prosecutors in Weiden, Bavaria, are
to decide whether to charge him and try to bring him to Germany
to face trial.
The man is believed to have lived
in the Weiden area before going abroad after World War II.
German officials have not named him,
but the Sueddeutsche Zeitung news website says the suspect
is believed to be a Slovak now living in Philadelphia, in
the US.
The chief prosecutor at Germany's
office investigating Nazi war crimes, Kurt Schrimm, said
details on the suspect came to light during the high-profile
Demjanjuk investigation.
In March this year Ukrainian-born
John Demjanjuk, found guilty for his role as a Nazi guard
at the Sobibor death camp, died aged 91. He had been sentenced
to five years in prison by a German court in May 2011.
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi death
camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews,
were murdered. bbc.co.uk
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