Nazi hitman on trial for murder of Dutch civilians
The 88-year-old was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair and had a doctor by his side as the proceedings began, but looked alert and attentive as he answered the presiding judge’s questions with one-word responses.
The resident ofEschweiler, on the outskirts of Aachen, faces the rest of his life in prison, if convicted of the killings of a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian while part of an SS death squad codenamed “Silbertanne,” or “Silver Pine”.
