By Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 07:50 EST, 2 September 2013 | UPDATED: 07:59 EST, 2 September 2013 A 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS has gone on trial in Germany accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944. Dutch-born Siert Bruins, who is now German, volunteered for the SS after the Nazis conquered the Netherlands in 1941. Bruins served as a member of the Sicherheitspolizei, or Security Police, in a unit looking for resistance fighters and Jews. No pleas are made in the German legal system, and Bruins made no statement about the accusations against him. His lawyer said he would answer questions during the trial but not about the charges.
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Siert Bruins joined unit which hunted resistance fighters and Jews in 1941
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Now 92, he's accused of killing freedom fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in 1944
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Already served time in jail in 1980s for role in the killing of two Dutch Jews
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If found guilty he faces life in prison for murder
Mr Dijkema, whose sister has joined the trial as a co-plaintiff, which is allowed under @placeholder law, was taken by the Nazis on suspicion he was involved in the Dutch resistance.