German prosecutors charged a Ukrainian-born man with participating in the murders of 17,000 Jews at the Majdanek death camp in Poland. Alfons Goetzfried has admitted to personally shooting 500 people in the camp in November 1943. Goetzfried, who was imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp for 13 years after World War II, moved to Germany in 1991. No date has been set for the trial.
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