Student nabs Nazi via phone book
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Prosecutors in Germany have charged a former member of the Nazi SS with 58 counts of murder after he was tracked down by an Austrian student.
The German pensioner who has been charged with multiple counts of murder was uncovered by a student of political science at the University of Vienna.
The 90-year-old man has not been publicly identified but is accused of taking part in a massacre of Jewish labourers.
The student had been researching a massacre that had taken place just weeks before the end of World War II in the woods near the Austro-Hungarian border.
He discovered that at a 1946 trial, the name of an SS man had been mentioned in connection with the killings - a man who was never prosecuted.
With the help of the German telephone directory, the student found him living in the western German city of Duisberg.
- BBC
