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Adolf Storms, a former SS sergeant, was charged with 58 counts of murder on Tuesday and is accused of being a Nazi war criminal. The man was named in the German press and a report from the UK Times Online notes that he "becomes the latest pensioner to be prosecuted for alleged Nazi war crimes as courts rush to secure convictions before the defendants become too infirm and the witness testimony too unreliable."

Ex-SS Adolf Storms Charged with Nazi Era Crimes (Image: WENN)

He is reported to be a 90-year-old former member of an elite Waffen SS unit. The report notes that "Storms was found by accident last year, as part of a research project by Andreas Forster, a 28-year-old student at the University of Vienna."


The Huffington Post reports:



In-depth coverage here from the UK Times. The case will be based on written statements made in previous trials as no living witness has yet been found to testify.

Storms had lived quietly and worked as a railway station manager and was described by German authorities as a "retiree from Duisburg."