Former Nazi, 92, to go on trial over killings at Stutthof death camp
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The execution of the SS overseers of the Stutthof concentration camp: Becker, Klaff, Steinhoff, and Pauls on July 4, 1946, with priest
A 92-year-old former Nazi is to go on trial in October over charges he helped kill hundreds of people at the Stutthof death camp near the end of the war.
Bruno D is accused of being an SS guard at the camp near Gdansk and of having been involved in the killing of 5,230 prisoners between August 1944 and April 1945.
German newspaper Die Welt reported he acknowledges being there, seeing people being pushed into gas chambers and seeing bodies being cremated, but claims that this does not make him guilty.
He was 17 or 18 years old at the time, which means that he will be tried in a youth court.
Mr D was accused in April of being “a cog in the murder machine who was aware of the circumstances” and of “having been able to contribute to carrying out the orders to kill”.
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