Josef Schuetz, the oldest Nazi ever to be prosecuted for crimes committed during the Holocaust, has died age 102. He was a prison guard at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg.
A court in Germany has found a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard guilty of participating in the murder of thousands during World War II, sentencing him to five years behind bars.
One-hundred-and-one year old former security guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp is seen in courtroom just before his trial verdict at Landgericht Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany, 28 June, 2022. On Tuesday (28 June), a German court sentenced a former SS Guard to five years imprisonment for helping in the murder of around 3,500 people at Sachsenhausen concentration […]
He has been convicted in Germany of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.