German authorities are investigating three Germans over Nazi-era war crimes in Russia that included rounding up civilians in a barn and burning them, Munich prosecutor Manfred Wick said.
In a German news agency DPA report, Mr Wick said the three allegedly committed their crimes between November 1942 and late 1943 in a campaign against suspected partisans that also targeted children and young women.
"Also sick and wounded were shot," Mr Wick said.
He said: "One case concerned 70 people who were driven into a barn. The barn was then burned, killing the people."
The three suspects, who were born in 1909, 1917 and 1918 and one of whom lives in the Munich region, were members of the Nazi military police.
Munich authorities were alerted to them by the government's center for research into Nazi war crimes in the southwest city of Ludwigsburg, which had gleaned the information from files of the former east German secret police, the Stasi.
AFP