German prosecutors have started an investigation into a 105-year-old man suspected of committing crimes at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. The suspect is believed to have been a guard at the Stalag 326 VI K camp in the Senne region of western Germany. He is accused of being an accessory to multiple murders through his activities at the camp. This case was first reported by the Bild newspaper, which also noted that another former guard at the same camp had been investigated but has since passed away. The Senne camp, located in what is now western Germany, held between 180,000 and 200,000 Soviet prisoners of war from 1941 until April 1945, when it was liberated by American forces. A memorial site at the location states that of the approximately 5.3 to 5.7 million Soviet prisoners of war captured by Germany, between 2.3 and 3 million did not survive. These prisoners endured severe hardships, including malnutrition, lack of medical care, poor sanitation, and forced labor. In 2025, prosecutors in Dortmund also opened an investigation into a 100-year-old former guard at another WWII prisoner-of-war camp in Hemer, which primarily held Soviet inmates. The suspect was believed to have participated in executions between December 1943 and September 1944. Another alleged guard at the same camp was charged in 2023. Recent years have seen several trials of former Nazi camp staff, partly inspired by the 2011 conviction of former Sobibor death camp guard John Demjanjuk, despite no direct evidence he had killed anyone. Demjanjuk, who had lived in the U.S. as a former auto worker, died in 2012 at the age of 91. However, time is running out as more than 80 years have passed since the end of the war. Josef Schuetz, a former guard sentenced in June 2022 to five years in prison, died less than a year later at the age of 102. At the time, he was the oldest person ever to stand trial for crimes committed by the Nazi regime. In April 2025, an alleged former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin died before he could face trial over charges of being complicit in the murder of more than 3,300 people. In 2021, a 96-year-old woman accused of 11,000 counts of accessory to murder at a Nazi concentration camp went on trial in Germany. In 2018, former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening, dubbed the "Accountant of Auschwitz," died before he could begin serving his 4-year sentence. Groening had been convicted in Lueneburg in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews. The court found that, although there was no direct evidence of involvement in a specific killing, Groening knew that Jews were being slaughtered at the German death camp and supported the killings through his actions.