World War Two, still with us

War History Online has an article about not-quite-the-last act of the Second World War:

Officials in Germany have raided and searched three houses that belong to former Nazi SS members.  The raid is part of an investigation into their actions during World War Two, each of whom is thought to have been involved in a massacre in Northern France more than seventy years ago.
German Prosecutor Andreas Brendel authorized German police to search the three homes this week. Two are situated in Saxony and the third in Lower Saxony. Amongst the items removed from the property were documents, photos, and other evidence.
All of the men are reported to be in their nineties and were members of the 12th SS Panzer Division and the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth). They are believed to have been responsible for murdering nearly ninety men in the French village of Ascq in 1944.
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out by rail for Normandy in France at the end of March in 1944. On 1 April, as their train was approaching the Gare d’Ascq, a critical juncture where three railroads intersected, an explosion blew the line apart, causing two cars to derail. The commander of the convoy, SS Obersturmführer Walter Hauck, ordered troops to search and arrest all male members of the houses on both sides of the track.
Altogether, seventy men were shot beside the railway line and another sixteen killed in the village itself. Six other men were arrested, charged with the bomb attack after an investigation by the Gestapo, and finally executed by firing squad.
At the end of the war, some SS men stood trial in a French military court at Lille. They were sentenced to death; later their sentences were commuted to imprisonment. The last prisoner, Walter Hauck, was released in July 1957. Hauck also instigated a similar massacre in Leskovice in the Czech Republic in May of 1945.
After the massacre, sixty thousand workers started a strike in Lille, one of the most important demonstration in France during World War Two under German occupation, and a minimum of twenty thousand people were present at the funerals in the village.
The three men have all admitted to being members of the division, but have all denied accusations that they were there during the massacre.
The investigation continues and to date no charges have been brought forward.

Rico says hangings too good for some people...