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Germany accuses Nazi guard of complicity in murder

2023-09-02 09:51:17Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Germany accuses Nazi guard of complicity in murder
Sachsenhausen Memorial Center

The German worked as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, where more than 200,000 people were imprisoned before and during World War II.

A 98-year-old man has been charged with complicity in murder as a participant in the killing of more than 3,300 people in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, German authorities announced Friday.

The German was a teenager when he worked as an SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between July 1943 and February 1945.

Prosecutors submitted that the accused person "supported the cruel and malicious execution of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard" during this period.

Pursuing the surviving Nazis

A psychiatric evaluation concluded that the 98-year-old, whose name has not been released, was competent to stand trial.

However, given his young age at the time of the charges against him, a youth court in Hanau will decide whether or not to prosecute.

Germany accuses Nazi guard of complicity in murder
Prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was located north of Berlin. At first, the Nazis sent to the camp political opponents such as communists, social democrats, liberal and conservative politicians. Later, they were followed by members of other groups persecuted by the fascists: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals.

Experts estimate that between 40,000 and 50,000 prisoners were killed there: from starvation, disease, forced labor, medical experiments and ill-treatment. Beginning in October 1941, mass executions of Soviet prisoners of war began in a specially constructed execution facility at Sachsenhausen.

Another concentration camp guard was sentenced in 2022

The last conviction, in June 2022, was that of a former concentration camp guard who worked at Sachsenhausen, who was sentenced to five years in prison. "Through your activity, you willingly supported this mass extermination", said the chairman of the court at that time.

The accused, however, died in freedom in April: the 102-year-old had appealed the verdict against him. The Federal Court of Justice had not decided until his death.

The conviction of former Nazi guard John Demjanjuk in 2011 set a precedent in German law, allowing others to be prosecuted for their actions during the Holocaust.

Since then, a number of legal actions have been taken in Germany against surviving SS personnel.

But due to the great age of the defendants, many of these trials had to be canceled for health reasons.

Convictions do not always result in imprisonment. Some defendants have died before they start serving their sentence./ DW


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