Man accused of being a Nazi guard faces 36,000 counts of accessory to murder

It's alleged he served as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp in northern Austria during World War II.

A 95-year-old man has been charged with more than 36,000 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations that he served as a guard at the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp, prosecutors in Berlin said.

Hans Werner H, whose last name was not released because of German privacy regulations, is accused of serving as an SS guard in the camp in northern Austria from mid-1944 to early 1945.