Former SS guard, 93, on trial in Germany for complicity

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Former SS guard Bruno Dey argued that he killed no one and questioned what a 17-year-old forced to become a camp guard could do against Adolf Hitler's regime.

A 93-year-old former SS guard goes on trial in Germany on Thursday for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in what could be one of the last such cases.

During Dey's time at the camp, the"Final Solution" order to exterminate Jews was issued by the Nazi leadership, leading to the systematic killing of inmates in gas chambers, while others died of starvation or because they were denied medical care, the prosecutors said. 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.

Another report by Welt daily said Dey confirmed he knew of the camp's gas chambers, where he saw SS prisoners being pushed inside."What good would it have done? They would have just found someone else", he replied when asked why he did not put in a transfer to fight at the front, according to the newspaper.

 

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