Trial begins of 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard

Josef S, alleged to have worked at Sachsenhausen, is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder

A 100-year-old man has gone on trial in Germany accused of being an accessory to murder for serving as a Nazi SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin during the second world war.

The trial of the defendant, who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder, is being held at the Neuruppin state court, which moved the proceedings to a prison sport hall in Brandenburg for organisational reasons.