The trial of 87-year-old former SS soldier Heinrich Boere, who has confessed to killing three Dutch civilians during World War Two, will start on Oct. 28 in the western city of Aachen, a German court said.
Boere was captured by U.S. forces in the Netherlands after the war and confessed to killing the Dutch civilians while a member of an SS hit squad which hunted anti-Nazi resistance fighters.
Boere, on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of top ten World War Two criminals, escaped and fled to Germany before being sentenced to death in absentia in the Netherlands in 1949.
After refusing a 1980 Dutch extradition request, a German court indicted him in 2008. In January the case nearly collapsed after a court said he was unfit for trial, due mainly to a heart condition. The ruling was overturned by an appeal court.
Source: AFP
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