A 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp warden was sentenced to five years in prison following a court trial in Brandenburg, Germany.
Josef Schuetz is the oldest person accused of war crimes during the Holocaust, he is involved in the murder of 3,518 prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. He was 21 years old. era of events.
The man pleaded innocent, saying he " did absolutely nothing " and was unaware of the gruesome crimes committed in the camp.
"I don't know why I'm here," Schuetz said after the trial. But prosecutors say he "knowingly and voluntarily" participated in the crimes as a camp keeper.
More than 200,000 people including Jews, Roma, regime opponents and gays were detained in that concentration camp: tens of thousands died from forced labor, murder, medical experiments, starvation or disease before the Soviets liberated the camp.
(Unioneonline / L)
