Verdict due in German trial of former Nazi SS camp guard. Bruno Dey, 93, could be convicted of 5,230 counts of accessory to murder, equal to the number of people believed to have been killed at Stutthof concentration camp during his service there.
Dey has acknowledged hearing screams from the Stutthof's gas chambers while serving as a guard and seeing corpses taken to be burned. But he said he never fired his weapon.Dey has acknowledged hearing screams from the camp’s gas chambers while serving as a guard and seeing corpses taken to be burned. But he said he never fired his weapon.Nazis’ machinery of destruction“Today, I want to apologize to all of the people who went through this hellish insanity,” he said.
Prosecutors had sought a three-year prison sentence. Defense attorney Stefan Waterkamp had argued for an acquittal, saying that Dey found himself working at Stutthof only by circumstance and that he would have been in danger himself if he had tried to get out of guard duty. “How could an 18-year-old step out of line in a situation like this?” Waterkamp asked while giving his closing argument.Relatives and representatives of dozens of survivors of the Stutthof Nazi camp joined the trial as co-plaintiffs and urged the court to convict Dey, but have not pushed for a punishment beyond the prosecution’s recommendation.has been described as likely Germany’s last.
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