(AP) David Rising - Johann Rehbogen, 94, a former SS enlisted man, went on trial Tuesday in Germany as an accessory to murder during the years he served as a guard at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp east of Danzig in Poland. Over 60,000 people were killed at Stutthof. Prosecutor Andreas Brendel described how some prisoners were given lethal injections of gasoline or phenol directly to their hearts, shot or starved. Others were forced outside in winter without clothes until they died of exposure, or put to death in the gas chamber. Survivor Judy Meisel, who today lives in Minneapolis, said, "Stutthof was organized mass murder through the SS, made possible through the help of the guards."
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