100-year-old German tried for crimes of Nazism pleaded not guilty

Yesterday, his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp explained that his client would not talk about the facts against him.

“The accused will not speak, he will only give information about his personal situation”, summarized the defender.

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Today, the man said he was “innocent” when asked about his work in the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, during the Second World War.

Protection, I searched the first of the “Totenkopf” division (skull) of the dreadful SS, is accused of “complicity in the death” of 3,518 detainees in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.

From its opening in 1936 until its liberation by the Soviets on April 22, 1945 by the field of Sachsenhausen spent around 200,000 prisoners, principally political opponents, Jews and homosexuals.

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Tens of thousands of them died of exhaustion due to forced labor and cruel conditions of detention.

Schutz “is not accused of having shot someone in particular, but of having contributed to these acts by his guard and of having been aware that these murders were taking place in the fields”, explained yesterday the spokesperson for the Neuruppin prosecutor’s office. Iris le Claire.

The accused faces a minimum of three years in prison, but his sentence would be symbolic because of his advanced age.

Schutz was 21 when the crimes against him began.