(AP) David Rising - Bruno Dey, 92, a former SS private, will go on trial this fall in Germany on 5,230 counts of being an accessory to murder, accused of helping the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp function and preventing prisoners from escaping, a Hamburg court said Thursday. When he was charged in April, prosecutors called him "a small wheel in the machinery of murder." More than 60,000 people were killed at the German Nazi camp built east of Danzig. Prisoners were killed by being 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 a gas chamber. German authorities have been pursuing cases against former camp guards and others suspected of Nazi-era war crimes more vigorously in recent years, but have been finding prosecutions increasingly difficult due to the defendants' age.
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