A German court on Tuesday sentenced a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to five years in prison for complicity in the deaths of more than 3,500 people in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The court simply identified the person as Joseph S., under Germany’s strict privacy law.
German authorities confirmed that Josef S. was working in Sachsenhausen by examining old camp records returned to Moscow by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. New York Times reported. The GS worked in the camp from 1942 to 1945.
According to the German government website, Sachsenhausen camp, located north of Berlin, provided internet to more than 200,000 people, typically in the camp from 1936 to 1945. In 1944, most of the detainees were political prisoners of war from the Soviet Union or Poland.
Scientists believe the death toll in the camp is between 40,000 and 50,000, according to the Associated Press (AP). It is believed that medical experiments, executions, hangings and gassing took place in Sachsenhausen.
The German government prosecutor involved in GS’s case said there was no legal limit for murder. Sometimes aforementioned.
During the sentencing, Judge Udo Lechtermann told Mr. S. that because he was a guard, he was an accomplice in the crimes committed at the camp.
“You voluntarily supported the mass destruction of your activities,” Lechtermann said, according to the AP. “You’ve seen exiles brutally tortured and killed every day for three years.”
In the final argument, GS, who was born in Lithuania but an ethnic German, denied working in the camp, claiming that he worked as a farmer during the war.
“I don’t know what to do,” the 101-year-old judge told the court on Monday. Sometimes. “I have nothing to do with it.
GS’s lawyer said he would appeal if found guilty prior to conviction. The former guard is unlikely to be imprisoned due to his age. Guardian reported.
As many of his Nazi-era accomplices age, the German government is trying to bring as many suspected war criminals to justice as possible.
As Breitbart News reported in 2018, former President Donald Trump deported a former Nazi guard from his Queens home in New York to Germany. The Trump administration has since said that Yakiv Palji, who has died since then, fraudulently became an American citizen after immigrating from Germany after the war.
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Source: Breitbart
