Austrian Student’s Sleuthing Unmasks Suspected Nazi War Criminal

Thanks in large part to the detective work of an Austrian university student, a 90-year-old former SS officer now living in Duisberg, Germany, has been indicted by German prosecutors for his alleged role in the 1945 massacre of a group of Jewish slave workers in an Austrian village, The New York Times reported. The University of Vienna student, Andreas Forster, had been conducting research on the massacre and tracked down the suspect simply by using current telephone records. The suspect was not named in court documents, but the Associated Press, citing German sources, identified him as Adolf Storms. Mr. Forster’s professor told the BBC that the suspect is “very clear in mind” but claims not to remember the killings.