The man at the centre of a media storm - a 92-year-old former member of Adolf Hitler's elite Waffen-SS goes on trial in Germany for murder.<br/> <br />Siert Bruins is accused of killing a Dutch resistance fighter during World War Two.<br/> <br />He has said previously that he was present at the murder of the man but says another soldier, now dead, shot him.<br/> <br />Bruin's lawyer said he thought the trial was was too late and questioned the wisdom of dragging a 92-year-old in front of a court again.<br/> <br />But a court spokesman said the former Nazi guard was fit for trial, although in a limited way, and had made it clear that he would speak out at a later stage.<br/> <br />The Hagen court already sentenced the Dutch-born accused to seven years in jail in 1980 for being an accessory to the murder of two Jewish brothers in 1945.<br/> <br />Germany has a patchy record of bringing its Nazi war criminals to justice but in the last few years some prosecutors have actively sought out some of the last survivors.
