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100-year-old concentration camp guard will be tried in Germany

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View of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

The man worked for three years in Sachsenhausen, where about 20 thousand people were killed. The process should start in October.

In Germany, 76 years after the end of World War II, a new trial of the former Nazi will take place. The 100-year-old guard of the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen, where about 20 thousand people died, will appear before the court, the newspaper reported. world.-

It is noted that the trial will begin in October.

The publication does not specify the name of the guard and the specific charges. It is known that the man served as a guard in a concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.

The president of the court, Frank Stark, specified that the defendant will participate in hearings from two to two and a half hours a day.

As the lawyer Thomas Walter, who will represent the interests of one of the co-plaintiffs, emphasized, such processes are necessary, despite the advanced age of the participants.

“Many plaintiffs are of the same age as the accused and hope for justice,” he stated.

Recall that the Sachsenhausen camp was located in Oranienburg to the north of Berlin. It was opened in 1936.

Over the years of its existence, more than 200 thousand people have passed through it. Tens of thousands of prisoners were killed, including as a result of medical experiments carried out on them.

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