94-Year-Old Nazi Suspect Facing Trial In Juvenile Court
Source: Newsweek
By Aristos Georgiou, 10 hrs. ago.
A 94-year-old German man accused of being accessory to hundreds of killings in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two is set to face trial in a juvenile court, according to authorities in the city of Münster.
He will not be tried in an adult court, because he was below the age of 21 at the time of the alleged offences. The man, whose name has not been revealed for legal reasons, denies the accusations against him, Reuters reports.
The accused, who was once a guard in the SS—the paramilitary wing of Hitler’s Nazi party—stands accused of knowing about the killings of people at Stutthof concentration camp, near Gdansk in Poland, where he served for three years.
Prosecutors in Münster said that hundreds of prisoners died at the camp between 1942 and 1945, according to Der Spiegel. Many were killed in gas chambers or via lethal injections into the heart, while others also died of exposure or cold...con't..
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It is proving very difficult for Germany to try people accused of Nazi war crimes involvement because there are only a handful of suspects still alive and they are extremely old.
The man's juvenile court hearings begin Nov. 6, and due to his age and poor health, they will only last two hours maximum each day.
After the 2011 conviction of John Demjanjuk, a former concentration camp guard, German laws regarding the prosecution of former Nazis were changed.
STUTTHOF, Post-war execution of overseers at Stutthof concentration camp with priest, July 4, 1946.
Stutthof was the first concentration camp set up outside German borders in World War II, in operation from 2 September 1939. It was also the last camp liberated by the Allies on 9 May 1945. It is estimated that between 63,000 and 65,000 prisoners of Stutthof concentration camp and its subcamps died as a result of murder, epidemics, extreme labour conditions, evacuations, and lack of medical help. Some 28,000 of them were Jews. In total, as many as 110,000 people were deported there in the course of the camp's existence.
Conditions in the camps were brutal from typhus outbreaks, inhumane forced labor and the killing of prisoners too sick or too old to work with Zyklon B gas or lethal injections to the heart. Evidence exists of a small-scale production of soap made from human corpses obtained from the Stutthof concentration camp. Stutthof has been confirmed as one of three sources for human remains that Nazi Dr. Rudolf Spanner used to make a limited quantity of soap from human fat, with the intention of product development.
The evacuation of prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland began on 25 January 1945. When the final evacuation began, there were nearly 50,000 prisoners, the majority of them Jews, in the Stutthof camp system. About 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps were marched to the Baltic Sea coast, forced into the water, and machine-gunned. -More. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutthof_concentration_camp
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