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Berlin: 99-year-old former Nazi security guard does not have to go to court

2022-11-04T09:54:10.597Z


Because of "permanent incapacity to stand trial," an old man escapes his court hearing. He is said to have made the mass murder possible as a youth during the Second World War in a prison camp.


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A 99-year-old who, as a Nazi guard, allegedly aided and abetted murder in hundreds of cases, does not have to go to court.

The accused was “permanently unable to stand trial for health reasons”.

This was announced by the youth chamber of the Berlin district court in a report that was available to SPIEGEL.

Between November 1942 and March 1943, the then 19-year-old is said to have aided and abetted the gruesome murder of inmates in the »Stalag 365« POW camp in Vladimir-Wolynsk in what is now Ukraine in at least 809 cases.

According to the Berlin public prosecutor's office, the man, as a member of a state rifle battalion of the Wehrmacht, is said to have guarded the Soviet prisoners of war housed there, among other things.

He was also said to have worked as a private in the camp's internal administration.

Inadequate living conditions and shootings

At least 809 Soviet prisoners of war died in the camp during the time of the crime as a result of the deliberately inadequate accommodation and living conditions and as a result of shootings and abuse.

As a guard, the accused had a dedicated insight into what was happening in the camp.

The public prosecutor said he was aware that his activities supported the smooth running of the ordered mass extermination.

An expert had come to the conclusion that the accused was not able to stand trial.

An improvement is also not to be expected.

The indictment was therefore not admitted to the main hearing.

A juvenile chamber of the regional court decided on the admission of the indictment, since the accused is said to have acted as an adolescent at the time of the alleged crimes.

Charges against members of concentration camp administrations

In recent years, there have been a number of charges and trials in Germany against former members of the security and administration teams at the two concentration camps, Auschwitz and Stutthof.

In July 2020, the district court in Hamburg sentenced a 93-year-old former Stutthof security guard to a two-year suspended sentence under juvenile criminal law for being an accessory to murder in 5,232 cases.

The former secretary of the Stutthof concentration camp, Irmgard Furchner, also had to answer in court.

She had caused a stir for trying to flee the trial.

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Source: spiegel

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