He is 100 years old, he was a guard in a Nazi concentration camp and will be tried for the deaths of 3,518 people | the Chronicle

Germany continues its attempt to heal the wounds of Nazism. This time, a 100-year-old man, who served as an SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, will be tried by a court from October, and Oranienburg.

So far the identity of the man has not been revealed, but he is was a member of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. He will be charged with complicity in the murder of 3,518 prisoners, of the more than 20 thousand who perished in the locality near Berlin, including the Soviets killed by a firing squad and the dead with the poisonous gas Zyklon B, published the newspaper world.

The Neuruppin prosecutor’s office received the case in 2019 from the special office of federal prosecutors responsible for investigating the Nazi-era war crimes. He has just formally presented the accusation against this man last February, for his performance between January 1942 and August 1944, and between December 1944 and February 1945, during his activity as a concentration camp guard.

Why will they judge him later?

As more than 70 years have passed, the number of suspects in these crimes is declining, prosecutors continue to work to identify and bring suspected culprits to justice.

So far, it was known that the man, who is said to live in the state of Brandenburg on the outskirts of Berlin, will appear in court for up to two and a half hours a day since. the prosecutor received a medical evaluation confirming that the man is “fit to stand trialDespite his advanced age.

“Sachsenhausen was for the scene of the Nazi leaders, at the gates of Berlin, of his illusion of control over life and death and many of those who make up the civil party are the same age as the accused and hope that justice will be done», Revealed the lawyer Thomas walther, who for years represented the civil party in the most recent lawsuits against Nazism and who will also be part of them which will take place in Neuruppin.

“Murder does not prescribe. It is about clearing up the crimes and the former detainees have the opportunity to tell what happened there.“Added the historian Stephanie Bohra, scientific collaborator of the Berlin Topography of Terror documentation center.

It was the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, by Gabriel Herrera