One of the Netherlands last wanted war criminals, SS member Heinrich Boere, has admitted killing three Dutch nationals in 1944.

Boere, 88, is currently on trial in Aachen, Germany. He had earlier admitted on film shooting dead three Dutch nationals in revenge for attacks by the resistance on the German occupiers.
‘In 1944 I did not for one moment feel I was involved in a crime. Now, of course, I see things differently,’ news agency ANP quoted him as saying on Tuesday.
Born in Germany to a German mother and Dutch father, Boere was captured by the Americans after the war and sent to a prison camp in Limburg. He escaped in 1949 and went to his mother’s home in Maastricht where, according to Nos tv, he spent seven years in hiding. He was tried in his absence and sentenced to death and in 1954 fled to Germany where he has lived ever since.
The Netherlands tried several times to have Boere extradited but Germany does not extradite its own nationals. New rules have now made his prosecution possible in Germany. A lower court had ruled Boere was too weak to stand trial but this was overturned on appeal.
He is charged with killing three men, Fritz Bichnese, a chemist and father of 12 children, bicycle seller Teun de Groot who helped Jews go into hiding, and member of the resistance Frans Kusters. The German public prosecutor is demanding three life sentences