A former SS concentration camp guard is to go on trial before a juvenile court – at the age of 94 – on charges of complicity in the mass murder of Holocaust victims, including “probably several hundred” Jews.

The man, who has not yet been named, served as a guard at Stutthof, a Nazi Concentration Camp in occupied Poland where approximately 65,000 people were killed, 28,000 of them Jewish.

He is to be tried in a juvenile court because the murders he is accused of being complicit in took place before he reached the age of 21.

The regional court of Muenster, Germany, has ordered the man to be tried, with the case due to begin on November 6. He must still be determined to be fit to stand trial.

The guard stands accused of complicity in the murders of over 100 Polish prisoners who were gassed on June 21, 1944, and “probably several hundred” Jewish prisoners between August and December 1944, AFP reports.

In Germany, juvenile sentencing laws cover people until the age of 21, rather than 18 as elsewhere in Europe, and juveniles are never transferred to adult courts.