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Adolf Storms, age 90, has been charged with the murder of 58 people in the final days of the second world war, in northern Germany. A court in Duisberg, western Germany, has brought the charges against the man, a former SS member, who is accused of taking a group of forced labourers to the woods and shooting them 29 March 1945. Storms was found by a student in Vienna who was researching massacres of forced labour workers. The court has not yet decided if it will open proceedings. Die Welt, in a July article about John Demjanjuk, who was brought back to Germany from the US to stand trial as an accessory in the deaths of 27,000 Nazi prisoners during the war, said that Germans have little appetite for more war trials.

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