The man, named only “Harry S.”, was reportedly stationed in the concentration camp – where an estimated 65,000 people were murdered during the Holocaust.
The court in Wuppertal, Germany, should try him for “helping and inciting [the] murder [of] several hundred [people]”Judge and spokesman Christian Lange told CNN.
But due to his inability to “conduct the defense in an understandable and understandable manner”, the trial will no longer take place, said Lange. The court ruled, however, that he must “personally bear the expenses he incurred in the process”.
Harry S. is accused of having served as a guard in the Nazi concentration camp, near the Polish city now called Gdansk, between June 1944 and May 1945.
While there, the court alleges there is “strong evidence” that he oversaw the transport of 598 prisoners to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 596 were murdered in gas chambers.
The identity of the victims was not revealed, but historically prisoners in the camp included many Jews, as well as non-Jewish Poles.
Lange told CNN that Harry S. was part of a group of 11 men who oversaw the transportation of prisoners to Auschwitz.
Prosecutors did not reveal the woman’s name, but said she was accused of “having helped those responsible in the field in the systematic murder of Russian Jewish prisoners, Polish guerrillas and Soviet prisoners of war in their role as stenographer and secretary to the commander of the field. “
In 2018, Johann Rehbogen, then 94, was accused of being an SS guard in the Stutthof concentration camp when he was a teenager in 1942.
Rehbogen, who appeared in court in a wheelchair, denied knowing the extent of the atrocities committed there in a statement read in court by his lawyer. The trial was suspended after Rehbogen was hospitalized with health problems, AFP reported.
The alleged victims included at least 100 Polish prisoners killed with the use of poisonous Zyklon B gas, 77 Soviet prisoners of war killed in the summer of 1944, more than 140, mainly Jewish women and children killed “by an injection of gasoline and phenol into their hearts, “and several hundred Jewish prisoners executed for being considered” unfit for work “.
CNN’s Nadine Schmidt and Atika Shubert contributed to this report.