Nazi officer in court

A former Nazi officer has been charged with murdering a Dutch resistance fighter in September 1944.

92-year old Siert Bruins, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), is accused of shooting Aldert Klaas Dijkema after he was captured near Groningen.

The prosecutor at the court in Dortmund said that the defendant’s age should not prevent justice being served.

Bruins was born Dutch, but was given German citizenship after Adolf Hitler conferred German citizenship on all foreigners working for the Nazis. He was previously convicted of the murder of two Jews and sentenced to 7 years in 1980.

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