One of Germany’s last war crimes trials has ended. Dutch-born 92-year-old Siert Bruins a security and border guard during World War Two was accused of killing a Dutch resistance fighter.<br /><br />The judge ordered the case to be dropped because too much evidence had been lost in the seven decades since the event. <br /><br />Prosecutors, who had been calling for a life sentence, had argued at the trial, which started in September, that Bruins killed a Dutch citizen, Aldert Klaas Dijkema, who was suspected of working for the resistance against German occupation of the Netherlands in September 1944. <br /><br />They said Dutch-born Bruins and another man, who has since died, shot Dijkema four times, once in the back of the head, possibly while he was fleeing. Prosecutors had called for a life sentence. <br /><br />White-haired Bruins, who showed little emotion, left the court with the help of a walking frame.<br /><br />Detlef Hartmann, lawyer for the victim’s sister, told reporters he was shocked at the court’s decision.<br /><br />“My cli
