A former SS guard at a concentration camp, now 95 years old, has been charged with being an accomplice to the murders in several hundred cases, a spokesman for a Wuppertal court announced on Monday 13 July. , in Germany. While another former Stutthof concentration camp guard, who has been on trial in Hamburg since October, is awaiting the verdict of his judges next week, this indictment is one of the latest legal proceedings for Nazi atrocities.
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However, a trial has not yet been held, and the courts must first decide whether, due to his great age, he is fit to be tried before possibly sending him to court. German justice accuses the nonagenarian whose identity was not revealed but who was 19 years old at the time of the facts of having belonged to a company of SS and of having as such been guardian of the camp of Stutthof, located 40 km from the city of Gdansk, today in Poland.
If tried, he would appear, despite his 95 years, in youth court because of his age at the material time. In Hamburg, Bruno Dey, 93, has been on trial since October for complicity in the murder of 5,230 prisoners as an SS guard in April 1944 and April 1945 in this camp. The prosecution required three years in prison against the accused, the judgment is expected on July 23.
Last year, the state-run regional broadcaster NDR assured that 29 proceedings concerning Nazi crimes were still pending in Germany. German justice is notably investigating a 94-year-old woman, Irmgard F., a former personal secretary to a camp commander and who now lives in a retirement home north of Hamburg, according to NDR.