--- title: German Man, 95, Faces Trial Over Nazi Murders at Auschwitz description: A 95-year-old man will go on trial in Germany next month on charges of being an accessory to the murder of more than 3,000 people. canonical: https://time.com/4184509/auschwitz-nazi-trial/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-18T21:05:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T09:06:54.329Z article:section: World og:title: German Man, 95, Faces Trial Over Nazi Murders at Auschwitz og:description: He's accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 3,681 people og:url: https://time.com/4184509/auschwitz-nazi-trial/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d53fd3a9a2372a3/698879893c16396f3445b990/auschwitz-trial-murder.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 170262733 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: German Man, 95, Faces Trial Over Nazi Murders at Auschwitz twitter:description: He's accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 3,681 people twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d53fd3a9a2372a3/698879893c16396f3445b990/auschwitz-trial-murder.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # German Man, 95, Faces Trial Over Nazi Murders at Auschwitz  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 18, 2016 9:05 PM CUT  Auschwitz AuschwitzHuw Jones-Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jan 18, 2016 9:05 PM CUT A 95-year-old man who was a medical attendant at the Nazis’ Auschwitz camp [will go on trial in Germany next month](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35342821?ocid=socialflow%5Ftwitter "undefined") on charges of being an accessory to the murder of more than 3,000 people. Hubert Zafke is accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 3,681 people during one month in 1944, the _BBC_ reports. The trial is set to start on Feb. 29 in Neubrandenburg. Zafke, who served in the SS during World War II, was aware of the [Holocaust’s most infamous concentration camp’s](http://time.com/3683841/auschwitz-anniversary-seventy/ "undefined") function as “an industrial-scale mass murder site,” prosecutors say, according to the _BBC_. Last year, [Oskar Groening](http://time.com/3958690/5-most-wanted-nazis/ "undefined"), who was known as “the bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” was convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and was sentenced to four years in prison. In September 2015, German prosecutors [charged a 91-year-old woman](http://time.com/4045628/woman-charged-auchswitz-deaths/ "undefined") who allegedly worked at the Nazis’ Auschwitz camp with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35342821?ocid=socialflow%5Ftwitter "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4184509/auschwitz-nazi-trial/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4184509/auschwitz-nazi-trial/"},"headline":"German Man, 95, Faces Trial Over Nazi Murders at Auschwitz","datePublished":"2016-01-18T21:05:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:06:54.329Z","description":"He's accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 3,681 people","url":"https://time.com/4184509/auschwitz-nazi-trial/","keywords":["Germany"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d53fd3a9a2372a3/698879893c16396f3445b990/auschwitz-trial-murder.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d53fd3a9a2372a3/698879893c16396f3445b990/auschwitz-trial-murder.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170262733","caption":"Auschwitz","creditText":"Huw Jones-Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4184509/auschwitz-nazi-trial/","name":"German Man, 95, Faces Trial Over Nazi Murders at Auschwitz"}}]}] ```