100-year-old Nazi death camp guard charged over 3,518 murders during WWII
The man, who resides in the state of Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, stands accused of complicity in 3,518 cases of murder, Germany’s NDR broadcaster reported on Monday.
The 100-year-old is said to have "knowingly and willfully" contributed to murder of inmates in Sachsenhausen, where he served as a security guard between 1942 and 1945.
92-year old SS guard to face trial for helping to kill 5,230 people in Nazi death camp
The concentration camp located in north-eastern Germany was a place where the Nazi regime imprisoned some 200,000 people, including political dissidents, Jews, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war – including Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili, who died there in 1943.
Sachsenhausen had a gas chamber and a medical experimentation area among its subcamps. An estimated 100,000 people who were imprisoned there died, in part due to diseases, medical experiments, and unbearable slave labor conditions.
German prosecutors believe that the former guard can still stand trial despite his advanced age. A local court must now decide whether to allow it.
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“For the elderly survivors of the German concentration and extermination camps, this process is also an important example of the fact that justice has no expiration date and the persecution of the SS perpetrators must not end even in old age,” Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee said about Monday’s indictment.
https://www.rt.com/news/514975-nazi-death-camp-guard-charged/
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