Former Auschwitz guard aged 92 will appear before JUVENILE court in Germany

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Pensioner is accused of 'active participation' in murders of 1,075 people
Served in the extermination camp between November 1942 and June 1942
News follow sentencing of Auschwitz's 'bookkeeper' Oskar Groening, 94
Presumed he would be the last Nazi war criminal to stand trial for genocide

Published: 12:05 EST, 16 July 2015 | Updated: 12:47 EST, 16 July 2015

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One day after a German judge said Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening could be the last Nazi war criminal to stand trial came news of the investigation of another former S.S. man who served at the extermination camp.

The 92-year-old man will, bizarrely, be tried before a juvenile court because of his age when he was employed by the S.S. at Auschwitz.

He was 19 at the time he was a guard in the camp in Nazi occupied Poland between November 1942 and June 1943.

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Guilty: Only a day after Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening, 94, was sentenced to four years in jail for his part in the Holocaust, German prosecutors say another man who served in the extermination camp could be tried

Killing: The 92-year-old man faced being tried in a juvenile court because of his age when he was employed by the S.S. at Auschwitz (pictired) where he is accused of 'active participation' in the murders of 1,075 people

German court finds 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Groening guilty

He is accused of 'active participation' in the murders of 1,075 people from three groups who, in the words of prosecutors, were 'killed in an awful and malevolent manner.'

The victims had arrived at the main killing centre of the Third Reich from France, Holland and the reich capital, Berlin.

Prosecutors said they are limiting the case to these three deportations for 'legal reasons' and due to the amount of evidence they have in these cases.

Prosecutors in Frankfurt said the accused was actually involved in overseeing the arrival of three groups of deportees totaling more than 1,800 people in all.

They said he was a willing participant in the 'cruel system' of Auschwitz and 'part of the industrialised mass murder machine.'

Sentenced: Groening was convicted of complicity in the murders of 300,000 people on Wednesday for his role as an SS guard at Auschwitz, but will remain free while judicial authorities decide if he is fit enough for prison

He has not been named and like some 50 people recently investigated in Germany, there is no guarantee he will eventually make it into the dock of the Youth Court in the town of Hanau.

On Wednesday Oskar Groening, 94, was sentenced to four years in jail by judge Franz Kompisch for his role as an S.S. guard at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944 when the gas chambers were busy liquidating Hungarian Jews.

He was convicted of complicity in the murders of 300,000 people. But he remains free while judicial authorities decide whether he is actually fit enough to go to prison.

Judge Kompisch noted in his closing remarks that it was 'likely' Groening would be the last S.S. man from Auschwitz to be tried in Germany