By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed at the part of the death camp used as a killing machine for Jews.
The case of an 87-year-old Philadelphia man accused by Germany of serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz has largely centered on whether he was stationed at the part of the death camp used as a killing machine for Jews.
German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who now might be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of John Demjanjuk, the Associated Press has learned.
He said there were probably "under 1,000" possible suspects who could still be alive and prosecuted, living both in Germany and abroad.
"We have to check everything — from the people who we were aware of in camps like Sobibor ... or also in the Einsatzgruppen," he said, referring to the death squads responsible for mass killings, particularly early in the war before the death camps were established.
