German prosecutors have slapped a 94-year-old man with 3,681 accessory to murder charges, alleging that the man served as a Nazi medic at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Stefan Urbanek, a spokesman for Schwerin prosecutors, said the man was an SS sergeant who served in an SS hospital at Auschwitz. Because his alleged role would have assisted the camp in their extermination pogrom, Urbanek said he was an accessory to murder culpable for the 1944 killings for which he is charged.

The move comes as German prosecutors federal investigators pushed to authorities to exercise a new precedent in German law that allows increasing scrutiny of alleged Nazi war criminals. The 94-year-old man is one of 30 individuals federal investigators recommended charges against in 2013 for their possible involvement in Auschwitz’s brutal executions and genocidal atrocities against Jews.

Peter-Michael Diestel, the man’s attorney, told the Bild newspaper that there’s zero evidence his client committed any “concrete criminal act.”

Auschwitz (Oswiecim) is in Southern Poland, between Katowice and Krakow.

One man was recently given 700,000 accessory to murder charges for alleged involvement as a Nazi guard at the camp.

Both men are unnamed in accordance with the country’s privacy laws.

Last year, Oskar Groening was handed 300,000 accessory to murder charges for his role as a guard at Auschwitz.

Groening openly spoke about his time as a guard, saying that while he witnessed horrible acts, he committed none himself.

He talked about an incident with Der Spiegal magazine in 2005, where he heard a baby crying while he was working “ramp duty.” He heard a baby crying.

“I saw another SS soldier grab the baby by the legs,” he said. “He smashed the baby’s head against the iron side of a truck until it was silent.”

In January, Holocaust survivors gathered to remember Auschwitz’s atrocities, and celebrate the anniversary of the camp’s liberation.

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