(Jewish Group) 101-year-old former Nazi death camp guard sentenced to 5 years in prison
The oldest former Nazi camp guard ever put on trial in Germany has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Josef Schütz, 101, was found guilty of complicity in the mass murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, welcomed the verdict in a statement.
“Even nearly eight decades since the end of the war, there are Nazi perpetrators living among us,” said Knobloch, who survived the war as a child in hiding with a German Christian family. “Even after such a long time they can be held accountable for their deeds: That is the important message that comes from today’s verdict.”
The presiding judge at the court in Brandenburg-Havel concluded that Schütz was “aware that prisoners were killed there. By your presence, you supported” these acts, he told the accused, according to a report by Euronews and AFP. “Anyone who wanted to flee the camp was shot. Thus, every camp guard actively participated in the killings.”
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