“The charges against the 92-year-old former SS guard”
“charges have been brought against a 92-year-old man in Germany who are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the 5 230 people at a concentration camp during the second world war.”
“the Man worked as a SS-guard and was the years 1944-45 stationed in one of the towers which supervised the concentration camp Stutthof in the vicinity of today’s Gdansk in Poland. According to the indictment, contributed 92-year-old through the work to complete the nazi dödsorder.”
“the Man in the interrogation confessed that he had worked in the concentration camp and that he knew that the people were gassed to death on the spot, but believes that he himself is not guilty of any crime.”
“a trained baker, was by his own admission never a nazi, and herself, claiming the man he was assigned to the sentry of a chance, because he had a heart condition.”
“Despite the man’s age will trial, probably one of the last of its kind, take place in a juvenile court because the man was only 17 years old when he worked as a guard at Stutthof.”
“Earlier in the year was the trial of a 95-year-old former SS guard in, he also stationed at Stutthof, because he suffered from severe cardiovascular and kidney problems.”
“the Holocaust, Nazi germany’s mass murder 1939-1945, was killed about six million jews, according to the UN. About half of them ihjälgasades, the rest were shot, starved or froze to death.”
“Also five million non-jews – poles, russians, roma, homosexuals and the mentally ill – were murdered by the nazis.”
“At Auschwitz, the German name of the city of the city of oswiecim in southern Poland, built the largest and most notorious nazi concentration and utrotningslägret during the second world war. Between one and two million people died in Auschwitz.”
