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Trial of 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard reaches final stages

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Bruno Dey is accused of complicity in the murder of 5,230 people when he worked at the Stutthof camp.

Bruno Dey is accused of aiding and abetting murder in 5,230 cases. Image: DPA/PA Images Bruno Dey is accused of aiding and abetting murder in 5,230 cases. Image: DPA/PA Images THE PROSECUTION’S CLOSING arguments will be heard on today in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people during World War II.

His defence has insisted that he did not join the SS voluntarily before serving at the camp from August 1944 to April 1945, ending up assigned there because a heart condition excluded him from frontline service. “I don’t bear any guilt for what happened back then,” Dey said. “I didn’t contribute anything to it, other than standing guard. But I was forced to do it, it was an order.”

Since then, Germany has been racing to put on trial surviving SS personnel on those grounds rather than for murders or atrocities directly linked to the individual accused.

 

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