during the war, he served time in the USSR – World
Immediately after the war, Formanek was arrested and sentenced by a Soviet military tribunal to 25 years. He served 10 years.
In Germany, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main allowed the prosecution of a 100-year-old suspect of complicity in the 3,322 murders at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The Daily Mail and The Guardian write about it.
German authorities want a 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to stand trial nearly 80 years after the end of World War II.
The higher regional court in Frankfurt said on Tuesday it had overturned a lower court's ruling that the suspect was found unfit to stand trial.
Suspect Gregor Formanek was charged last year with aiding and abetting murders in 3,322 cases while working at the concentration camp…
