裁判直前に

Reuters “Nazi guard from Auschwitz dies just before trial” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/07/nazi-guard-from-auschwitz-dies-just-before-trial


アウシュヴィッツ強制収容所*1の元看守Ernst Tremmel(93歳)が死去。4月13日から、ハーナウ*2の裁判所で、 Tremmel被告の裁判が開始される予定であったが、その死によって、裁判のスケデュールは全てキャンセルされた。彼は1000名以上の囚人の殺害に協力した罪で起訴されていた。
起訴されている90歳以上のアウシュヴィッツ関係の戦犯は3人;


Two other men and one woman in their 90s are accused of being accessories to the murder of hundreds of thousands of people at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The trial of 95-year-old Hubert Zafke, a former Auschwitz paramedic*3 , and of 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, a former guard at the death camp*4, have already started.

No date has yet been set for the trial of the third defendant, 92-year-old Helma M, who worked as a radio operator at Auschwitz. She is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 260,000 people.