The guard, known as Josef S, had been convicted of involvement in 3,500 deaths at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1942 and 1945.
abc.net.au/news/nazi-guard-josef-s-dies/102270956A 102-year-old man who was convicted last year on more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has died.He was an SS guard at the Sachsenhausen death camp between 1942 and 1945German news agency dpa reported the man, whom local media have identified only as Josef S, in line with German privacy rules,He had denied working as an SS guard at the Sachsenhausen camp.
But the state court in Neuruppin concluded that documents with the man's name, date and place of birth showed he was an enlisted member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing stationed at the camp on the outskirts of Berlin between 1942 and 1945. Tens of thousands of inmates — including Jews, political prisoners and captured Soviet soldiers — died at the Sachsenhausen camp from starvation, disease, forced labour and other causes.Delivering the court's verdict, presiding Judge Udo Lechtermann said the defendant had assisted the murderous system established by the Nazis.
A file photo shows a roll call at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where tens of thousands died, and even more were sent off to be killed at other Nazi death camps. According to a legal precedent set in 2015, anyone who helped a Nazi camp function can be prosecuted in Germany for being an accessory to the murders committed there."You watched deported people being cruelly tortured and murdered there every day for three years."
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