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Former SS officer Siert Bruins, 92, is due to appear in court in Germany on Monday accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter some 70 years ago.
He could face a life sentence if found guilty over the death of Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944.
The incident occurred when Mr Bruins, a Dutch-born German, was stationed on the Dutch-German border.
The trial - which is to take place in the western town of Hagen - is one of the last of its kind in Germany.
Mr Bruins, originally from Groningen in the north-east of the Netherlands, is one of the last suspected Nazi criminals to be detained in Germany.
Another former SS officer, Heinrich Boere, began a life sentence in December 2011 for murdering three Dutch civilians during World War II.
'Shot in back'
Mr Bruins is accused of shooting Aldert Klaas Dijkema, who had been captured, four times in the back, in September 1944 in the Appingedam area east of Groningen.
Although he has already admitted being at the scene, he said he was not the person who pulled the trigger.
When confronted by a reporter for a German TV programme, he said he had been marching beside the prisoner when the shots rang out.
He is accused over the death along with an alleged accomplice who has since died.
After the war, Mr Bruins lived in Germany but the authorities refused to extradite him to face charges in the Netherlands, the BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin reports.
Separately, in 1980, he was sentenced by a German court to seven years in prison for the murder of two Jewish brothers.
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