[JURIST] Vladimir Katriuk, an elite Nazi storm trooper and the second most wanted man on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list [materials] died Thursday at the age of 93. Katriuk passed away after battling a long illness, according to his lawyer. It is alleged that Katriuk, a Ukrainian national, was a key participant in a massacre in what is now Belarus that occurred during the Second World War. He allegedly waited outside a burning building with a machine gun and shot civilians fleeing the building. After his participation he moved to France and finally settled in Canada with his fFench wife. In 1999 Canada’s federal court ruled that he had obtained citizenship under false pretense, but no evidence was found. In 2007 the court decided not revoke his citizenship. Russia had been seeking Katriuk’s extradition [Globe and Mail report].

Nazis and their supporters have continued to be prosecuted regardless of their age. In February a German court said that a 93-year-old man dubbed the “accountant of Auschwitz” will stand trial [JURIST report] on charges that he was an accessory to the killing of 300,000 people. In December a German court threw out a case [JURIST report] against a former SS soldier who was accused of being involved in the largest massacre in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. In June US officials arrested [JURIST report] 89-year-old Johann Breyer on charges that he was a Nazi SS guard at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II. In January 2014 a judge for Germany’s Hagen State Court dropped the case [JURIST report] against 92-year-old Siert Bruins, a former member of the Nazi Waffen SS. Prosecutors had accused Bruins of executing captured Dutch Nazi-opposition fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 outside the town of Appingedam.