in Aachen (Germany) began the trial of former SS Heinrich Bere. 88-year-old defendant is accused of that in 1944 he composed the firing squad SS participated in the murder of three civilians in the Netherlands, who were suspected of supporting anti-fascist resistance.

As the Deutsche Welle , a court in Amsterdam, even 60 years ago was sentenced in absentia H. Bere for this crime to death. Then the exceptional sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. However, the former SS man all these years, remained at large. The current process is conducted in his case, despite the doctors' opinion about the defendant's severe heart disease. Earlier, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that H. Bere should be brought to justice, despite the poor state of health.

trial of former SS men in Aachen – the third such process in the current year in Germany, which deals with crimes committed during the Second World War.

In August 2009, a jury trial in Munich, was sentenced to life imprisonment 90-year-old Joseph Shoyngrabera. As an officer in the Wehrmacht in 1944 in Italy, he ordered the bombing of the building in which there were 11 civilians.

November 30 Munich begins trial of 89-year old Ivan Demjanjuk. This former guard of the Nazi death camps, Sobibor, in Poland is accused of complicity in the murder of 27,900 Jews, prisoners of concentration camps.