Former SS man, 90, charged over massacre of 58 Jews

GERMAN prosecutors yesterday charged a 90-year-old former member of Hitler’s SS with 58 counts of murder over a massacre of Jewish forced labourers in the final weeks of World War II.

The man, named only as Adolf S, a member of the fifth SS Tank Division ’Viking’, is accused of hatching a plot on March 28, 1945, together with other SS and members of the Hitler Youth to shoot the Jewish labourers.

The following day the accused and other SS took at least 57 labourers in several groups into woods near the small town of Deutsch Schuetzen in Hitler’s native Austria near the present-day border with Hungary.