Efraim Zuroff, a leading Nazi tracker at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said the potential case presented difficulties as the man is a non-German and does not live in the country.
“A lot will depend on whether or not his country of residence has the political will to extradite him to Germany,” he said after noting that Australia refused to extradite a 90-year-old man to face accusations of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary during WW2.
The case has been transferred to prosecutors in Weiden, Bavaria, where a spokesman said it will be another month before a decision is made.
John Demjanjuk was sentenced to five years in jail for being an accessory to the mass murder of more than 28,000 Jews in the Holocaust, as a former guard at Sobibor concentration camp.
