One morning in the next few months, a 98-year-old man living somewhere near Coburg, in Bavaria, may be visited by the ghosts of the distant past.
Nearly eight decades ago he is believed to have joined the SS, Nazi Germany’s sprawling paramilitary apparatus of terror, which posted him to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in April 1943.
Local prosecutors are weighing up whether to charge the man, whose identity has not been made public, with aiding and abetting hundreds of murders that took place within the camp’s barbed wire perimeter over the following two years.
