DHAKA: The German office investigating Nazi war crimes said on Tuesday it would send files on 30 former Auschwitz death camp personnel to state prosecutors with a recommendation to bring charges.

In a twilight bid for justice nearly 70 years on, chief investigator Kurt Schrimm said the former Auschwitz guards, now aged up to 97, should face charges of accessory to murder.

‘The cases will be handed over to the respective public prosecutors’ offices,’ Schrimm said, reports The Straits Times.

Schrimm’s Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in the south-western city of Ludwigsburg, set up in 1958, has recommended bringing criminal charges against more than 7,000 people but has no powers to prosecute suspects itself.

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