Admitted Nazi hit man faces October trial.
"When we knew for sure we had the right person, we shot him dead, at the door," Nazi hit man Heinrich Boere told a Dutch newspaper in 2006.
"I didn't feel anything, it was work. Orders were orders; otherwise it would have meant my skin. Later it began to bother me. Now I'm sorry."
Boere will go on trial in October for the execution-style killings of three Dutch civilians during World War II.
Last month Boere, who will turn 88 in September, was ruled fit to stand trial.
A Cologne, Germany appeals court overturned a lower court's decision earlier this year not to put him on trial.
Boere is charged with the 1944 killings of three men in the Netherlands.
At the time Boere was a member of a Waffen SS death squad that targeted civilians in reprisal killings for resistance attacks.
Boere joined the Waffen SS in 1940 when he was 18. It was a fanatical military organization faithful to Adolf Hitler's ideology.
A Dutch court sentence Boere to death in absentia in 1949. The sentence later was commuted to life in prison.
An appeals court in Cologne overturned the 1949 conviction because Boere was not present. He had fled to Germany.
Prosecutors reopened the case using Boere’s detailed statements to Dutch police about the killings
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