MOSCOW, December 16 (RAPSI) - A 93-year-old alleged Auschwitz guard will stand trial in Lüneburg, Germany, The Local.de online news source reports on Tuesday. The name of the defendant has not been released.

According to a court secretary, the jury will consider his involvement in at least 300,000 murders at the concentration camp in Auschwitz in occupied Poland during WW II.

State prosecutors are accusing the man of having volunteered for the SS starting in 1944. He was supposedly hired to confiscate the belongings of arriving prisoners. A total of 49 people came forward as plaintiffs. The hearings are expected to begin in the spring of 2015.

The media outlet reports that a week ago, a court in Cologne dismissed a case against a former SS officer who, according to prosecutors, was allegedly in Oradour-sur-Glane during the 1944 massacre of over 600 locals by the Nazis. The man was charged with the murder of 25 people and assisting in the murder of hundreds of others.