Ex-Nazi SS officer involved in massacre of 86 French men and boys says he had RIGHT to shoot them Karl Münter, 96, was part of the SS 12th Panzer Division, which was responsible for a number of ...

At 17, he volunteered to serve with the Waffen-SS, in which he served as both a machine-gunner and then as a gunner in Panzer tanks, including in the Russian invasion in 1941.

Münter, a former member of the notorious SS 12th Panzer Division 'Hitler Youth', was involved in the massacre in the village of Ascq, near Lille, on the night of April 1, 1944.

'If they run away I have the right to shoot them': Ex-Nazi SS officer, 96, who helped to slaughter 86 French men and boys after the resistance blew up a train in 1944 faces hate speech charge Karl ...

The 96-year-old served as a non-commissioned officer in the SS’ notorious 12th Panzer Division “Hitler Youth”, which was involved in multiple war crimes.

Heinz Barth, 86, a former SS officer convicted of involvement in the massacre of an entire village in Nazi-occupied France, has died, a priest in the German town where he lived said Aug. 14.

Karl Münter, 96, was part of the SS 12th Panzer Division, which was responsible for a number of war crimes AN EX-NAZI SS officer who was involved in the massacre of 86 French men and boys during ...