Auschwitz camp guard to stand trial

A 93-year-old man charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp will go on trial early next year, a German court has decided.

The Lueneburg state court said its review of the prosecution’s case against Oskar Groening determined there was enough evidence to proceed with the trial.

Groening has talked about his time as a guard and says he witnessed atrocities but did not commit any crimes himself.