A former Nazi SS officer has gone on trial in Germany, charged with murdering inmates at a concentration camp near Prague. Anton Malloth, 89, faces three counts of murder and one of attempted murder that occurred while he was a guard at the Gestapo’s Theresienstadt camp in what is now the Czech Republic.

The accused, who denies all the charges, is being tried in a makeshift courtroom at Munich’s Stadelheim prison because of his advanced age.

A Czech court sentenced him to death in absentia for hundreds of killings in 1948, but he fled to Italy.

Doctors have declared Mr Malloth fit to stand trial. Proceedings will last for two hours a day.