Germany Investigates 105-Year-Old Over POW Camp Killings

German prosecutors are investigating a 105-year-old man suspected of serving as a guard at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp and of being an accessory to multiple murders, authorities said. The investigation concerns his alleged activities at Stalag 326 in the Senne region of western Germany during World War II; no finding of criminal responsibility has been reported. A spokeswoman for the Dortmund public prosecutors’ office said the man is suspected of having guarded prisoners at the camp. The case was referred to Dortmund in March by the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg, which examines evidence of Nazi-era crimes and refers cases for prosecution. Dortmund prosecutors then opened a formal investigation, the spokeswoman said. The man has not been named in the reports. Prosecutors have not publicly detailed what duties he allegedly performed, what evidence links him to the camp, or what knowledge they believe he had of killings. The reported investigation is not a charge or a court ruling, and the available information does not establish the suspect’s role or criminal responsibility.