Dortmund prosecutors issued an indictment against two former SS officers aged 92 and 93 whose names cannot be published in accordance with German law. The officers served as guards in the Stutthof concentration camp set up in Northern Poland near the city of Gdansk.
The indictment charges them with assisting in the murder of thousands of Jews sent to the camp as well as 100 Polish prisoners and 77 Soviet prisoners. The two were also charged with involvement in the spreading of typhus which led to the death of many other inmates.
85,000 inmates mainly Jews died in the Stutthoff camp.