World in Brief ( Nazi Trampling )

German woman charged in Nazi camp deaths 

ERFURT, Germany - An alleged former guard at a Nazi concentration camp for women has been charged with trampling to death a young inmate in 1945, court officials said yesterday.

Prosecutors say the woman, now 79, beat the girl with a club when she resisted being separated from her mother at the Malchow camp, part of the Ravensbruck concentration camp complex. When the girl fell to the ground, witnesses said the accused stomped on her with boots until the intestines spilled out and she died, prosecutors said.

The woman is being charged with murder, the state court in Meiningen said. No trial date has been set. The woman was fingered by witnesses of the incident living in the United States and Belgium, a court statement said.

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AP, World in Brief., Jerusalem Post, 03-20-1997, pp 04.