Josef Schwammberger, the former SS official serving a life sentence in a Stuttgart prison for murders during World War II, may face a German court again.
On Wednesday, the prosecution in Stuttgart called for new proceedings against the 81-year-old Schwammberger in 35 additional cases of murder.
According to the prosecution, material recently made available would make it possible to prove Schwammberger’s personal responsibility in killing 35 individuals in the concentrations camps of which he was in charge in occupied Poland.
The Nazi war criminal was extradited from Argentina to Germany in 1990. He was given a life sentence in May 1992 after being found guilty of personally murdering seven Jews and being an accomplice in the murders of 32 others.
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