World War Two for the day

The BBC has an article about a guy who got off lucky:

A court in the German city of Cologne has said there is not enough evidence to try an 89-year-old man accused over an infamous Nazi massacre of civilians in France, when SS troops murdered nearly seven hundred people in the central village of Oradour-sur-Glane on 10 June 1944.
Werner C did not deny being in the village, but said he had no direct involvement in the murders. Prosecutors accused him of shooting twenty-five people and helping to murder many more.
The men were separated from the women and children before the massacre began
Some 450 women and children were herded into a church in the village, then grenades were thrown into the building and it was set alight. The men were shot before being locked in a barn, which was also set on fire.
The ruins of the village (photo) have been left as they were in 1944 as a permanent memorial to those who died.
The suspect, whose full name was not given in court under German privacy laws, was charged by prosecutors in Dortmund in January of 2014, after files on six soldiers who were still alive were uncovered in the archives of the Stasi secret police in the former East Germany. Twenty soldiers were convicted for their part in the murders in the 1950s, but all were subsequently freed.
Werner C had been a member of an SS mechanized infantry regiment known as The Führer, according to prosecutors, and had been listed as a machine gunner. However, the court said a trial would only be able to establish that he was in the area during the massacre and rejected the list as incomplete. "This mere presence is not enough to prove accessory to murder without the proof of other circumstances," the court said.
The Dortmund prosecutors have a week in which to appeal against the decision.
A clear motive for the massacre of French civilians was never fully established, although there were suggestions that it was a reprisal for the kidnapping of a German officer.
In an interview earlier this year, the suspect claimed he had saved two women, urging them to head for a nearby forest.
Oradour-sur-Glane has served as a symbol of reconciliation in recent years between Germany and France.
Last year, German President Joachim Gauck stood hand-in-hand in the village with French President Francois Hollande and an 88-year-old survivor, Robert Hebras.

Rico says he was probably guilty; you didn't stay with the SS if you didn't do bad things...