Prosecutors charge 77-year-old Pole with collaboration in Nazi genocide

Police in Szczecin apprehended a 77-year-old man on Thursday for collaborating with Nazi German occupiers in the mass-murder of Jews during World War II.Henryk M. is accused of helping exterminate Jews between 1941-1943 in the Nazi concentration camp at Chelmno. In the beginning he had himself been an inmate of the camp, but agreed to collaborate. "I do not feel guilty. I could not escape and had to help them, because the Germans threatened to kill my family," said Henryk M. Further evidence will be presented over the next few months. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Nov. 4-5, pp. 1,3)