An ex-Nazi soldier was charged by German prosecutors on Wednesday for blaming Holocaust victims for their own deaths and denying that six million Jews were killed in the World War II genocide.

Prosecutors didn’t name the former SS soldier, but he is understood to be 96-year-old Karl Münter, who was previously convicted in France for his role in the murders of 86 people in the village of Ascq during WWII, according to Agence France-Presse.

In an interview with German TV-station ARD last November, Münter said those killed in Ascq were to blame for their own deaths.

He also disputed that the Holocaust claimed the lives of six million Jews.

“The accused did not dispute giving the information to journalists but he said he did not know that the interview was recorded and would be later broadcast,” prosecutors from Lower Saxony said in a statement.

If convicted, Münter faces up to five years in jail for the charge of incitement and two years for the charge of disparaging the memory of Nazi victims.

Prosecutors said the accused “did not view his statements as incitement and therefore thought he would not be liable to prosecution.”

Münter was a 21-year-old member of the Hitler Youth SS division when, on April 1, 1944, a train carrying some 50 soldiers of the division was derailed by an explosion, in an act of sabotage by the Resistance.

As revenge, the troops shot 86 men in the nearby village of Ascq in northern France — the youngest of whom was 15 years old.

A French military tribunal sentenced Münter to death in absentia in 1949 for his role in the mass killing.

He was pardoned in 1955 as part of the post-WWII French-German reconciliation efforts.

German prosecutors sought to reopen the war crime case against Münter — but they dropped the case last March under the legal principle known as double jeopardy, because he’d already been convicted in France.