Berlin – German Prosecutors: Auschwitz Medic No Longer Fit For Trial

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    FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2016 file photo Hubert Zafke, a former SS medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp, sits in a courtroom ahead of his trial in Neubrandenburg, eastern Germany.(Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP, file)Berlin – German authorities are seeking to end the prosecution of a former SS medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp, saying lengthy delays mean that the nearly 97-year-old suspect is now no longer fit for trial.

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    The prosecutors’ office in Schwerin said Thursday that Hubert Zafke was examined by experts twice in recent months and found unfit.

    Zafke was charged with 3,681 counts of accessory to murder in 2015 for allegedly helping the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland function. His attorney says he did nothing criminal.

    In June, three state court judges in the northeastern city of Neubrandenburg, who repeatedly delayed his trial over questions of his health, were removed after prosecutors and attorneys representing Auschwitz victims and their families complained of bias.

     

     


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    Andrew
    Andrew
    6 years ago

    His Yom haDin is only a short time away.

    You can run, but you cannot hide.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    shame he lived that long while my 12,year old cousin, my uncle, aunt ,brother were gassed there

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    Mide keneged mide, nicht mehr einsatzfaehig time for a dose of Zyklon B and in the gas chamber

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    Sometime, sometime soon, we will have to admit we did all we could do and some of the bastards got away with it.