--- title: Nazi Medic’s Trial Delayed Because He’s Too Sick to Attend description: The presiding judge put proceedings on hold Monday. canonical: https://time.com/4241439/nazi-medic-trial-sick/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-29T17:34:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:28:16.341Z article:section: World og:title: Nazi Medic’s Trial Delayed Because He’s Too Sick to Attend og:description: The 95-year-old is charged with thousands of counts of accessory to murder og:url: https://time.com/4241439/nazi-medic-trial-sick/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf1d37e2c4bc3791/69887f8da988caedeb6b6c9e/nazi-medic-trial-postponed-unfit.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: nazi medic trial postponed unfit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nazi Medic’s Trial Delayed Because He’s Too Sick to Attend twitter:description: The 95-year-old is charged with thousands of counts of accessory to murder twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf1d37e2c4bc3791/69887f8da988caedeb6b6c9e/nazi-medic-trial-postponed-unfit.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nazi Medic’s Trial Delayed Because He’s Too Sick to Attend  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Feb 29, 2016 5:34 PM CUT  Prosecutor Thomas Walther (center) at the court on the first day of Hubert Zafke's trial, February 29, 2016. Prosecutor Thomas Walther (center) at the court on the first day of Hubert Zafke's trial, February 29, 2016.John MacDougall—AFP/Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Feb 29, 2016 5:34 PM CUT [Hubert Zafke](http://time.com/4186602/prosecute-last-surviving-nazis/ "undefined"), a 95-year-old former Nazi medic at the Auschwitz concentration camp, [is not physically well enough to stand trial](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/auschwitz-medic-hubert-zafke-trial-germany "undefined") as of Monday, a doctor found. Zafke’s prosecution is the latest in a series of trials for the last remaining Nazis who carried out the Holocaust. But the presiding judge temporarily suspended the proceedings after they began Monday morning, as a doctor had said Zafke was “not in a state” to be transported to the court to speak, the _Guardian_ reports. “I can’t take it anymore, I’m at my end,” the judge [quoted Zafke](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-nazi-auschwitz-ss-medic-hubert-zafke-trial-accessory-to-murder/ "undefined") as telling the doctor. The next part of the trial is scheduled for March 14. Zafke was charged with 3,681 counts of accessory to murder, as he witnessed streams of prisoners sent to their deaths from his station on the path to the gas chambers. On Sunday, the doctor found he had “suicidal thoughts and was suffering from stress reaction and hypertension.” \[[_The Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/29/auschwitz-medic-hubert-zafke-trial-germany "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4241439/nazi-medic-trial-sick/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4241439/nazi-medic-trial-sick/"},"headline":"Nazi Medic’s Trial Delayed Because He’s Too Sick to Attend","datePublished":"2016-02-29T17:34:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:28:16.341Z","description":"The presiding judge put proceedings on hold Monday.","url":"https://time.com/4241439/nazi-medic-trial-sick/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf1d37e2c4bc3791/69887f8da988caedeb6b6c9e/nazi-medic-trial-postponed-unfit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf1d37e2c4bc3791/69887f8da988caedeb6b6c9e/nazi-medic-trial-postponed-unfit.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"nazi medic trial postponed unfit","caption":"nazi medic trial postponed unfit","creditText":"John MacDougall—AFP/Getty 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/4241439/nazi-medic-trial-sick/","name":"Nazi Medic’s Trial Delayed Because He’s Too Sick to Attend"}}]}] ```