A 101-year-old is currently on trial who is said to have been an SS guard in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In most cases, however, the crimes are hardly punished, criticizes the Auschwitz Committee.
The International Auschwitz Committee considers the punishment of crimes committed by the National Socialists to be insufficient, despite ongoing trials.
“With a view to the German post-war judiciary and the punishment for the crimes in the concentration camps, the survivors remain outraged and bitter because the vast majority of perpetrators remained unmolested by the judiciary and were able to live in Germany completely undisturbed,” said acting Vice President Christoph Heubner of the Germans press agency.
With a view to the ongoing trial against a suspected former SS guard in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he also acknowledged the Neuruppin district court in Brandenburg for its willingness to investigate.
At the age of 101 in court
According to the indictment, the 101-year-old, as an SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the time, is said to have aided and abetted the murder of more than 3,500 prisoners from 1942 to 1945. So far, the accused has denied that he worked in the concentration camp at all. He stated that he had been working as a farmhand near Pasewalk (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) at the time in question. He had been resettled from Lithuania to Germany in 1941 as a so-called Volksdeutscher. The public prosecutor’s office in Neuruppin refers to documents relating to an SS guard with the man’s name, date of birth and place of birth. She is demanding five years in prison for the accused.
According to the Vice President, the required sentence has a symbolic character “in view of what happened in Sachsenhausen and in which the accused more than obviously played his part”. The sentence was “disproportionate, low and painful for the survivors and their relatives” in view of the accused aiding and abetting the murder of more than 3,500 prisoners.
The plea by co-plaintiff lawyer Thomas Walther is expected in the process this Monday. A trial against a suspected former secretary in the Stutthof concentration camp is currently under way in the Itzehoe district court. The 96-year-old woman is accused of being an accessory to murder in more than 11,000 counts.
Source: Stern
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