LUDWIGSBURG, Germany —
The German special prosecutors’ office that investigates Nazi war crimes said Tuesday it is recommending charges against 30 alleged former Auschwitz guards, opening the possibility of a new wave of trials almost 70 years after the end of World War II.
Federal prosecutor Kurt Schrimm, the head of the office in Ludwigsburg, said the men and women were stationed at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Schrimm said the oldest suspect was born in 1916 and the youngest in 1926, meaning they could range in age from 87 to 97. Their names were not released.
It will be up to Germany’s state prosecutors whether to bring official charges. Under a recent legal argument, anyone who was involved in the operation of a death camp was an accessory to murder.
