An 88-year-old German man has been charged with involvement in one of the most infamous World War Two massacres, reports the BBC.
The charges relate to Oradour-sur-Glane in central France, where 642 people were murdered by SS troops in 1944.
Many were herded into a local church into which hand grenades were thrown before it was set on fire.
Prosecutors in Dortmund said the man had been charged over the murder of 25 people and with aiding and abetting the murder of several hundred.
The ruins of the village have been preserved just as they were after the massacre, as a permanent memorial.
French leader General Charles de Gaulle said it should be a reminder of the cruelty of the Nazi occupation.
Some 60 soldiers were brought to trial in the 1950s. Twenty of them were convicted but all were later released.
German investigators said last year they had opened a new inquiry into the massacre.
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