{"id":1530555,"date":"2022-06-28T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530555"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:34:30","slug":"german-man-101-sentenced-to-prison-for-accessory-to-3500-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-man-101-sentenced-to-prison-for-accessory-to-3500-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"German Man, 101, Sentenced To Prison For Accessory To 3,500+ Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgerman-man-101-sentenced-to-prison-for-accessory-to-3500-murders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A German regional court handed a 101-year-old man who served as a Nazi guard a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, identified by local media only as Josef S., was charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder related to crimes carried out in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The man had previously denied involvement with the SS, the Nazi organization tasked with running intelligence operations and concentration camps, and aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am innocent,\u201d the centenarian stated during his second day of the trial back in October. He went on to claim that he had worked as a farm laborer in northeastern Germany between 1942 and 1945, the period in question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the Neuruppin court found that he had worked at the camp as a member of the Nazi paramilitary wing based on documents relating to an SS guard with the man\u2019s name, date, and place of birth introduced by the prosecution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court has come to the conclusion that, contrary to what you claim, you worked in the concentration camp as a guard for about three years,\u201d said Judge Udo Lechtermann, according to the German news agency dpa. \u201cYou willingly supported this mass extermination with your activity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trial was held in a gymnasium in Brandenburg an der Havel, near the defendant\u2019s place of residence. His advanced age led to several interruptions caused by health complications and hospital stays, and he could only stand trial for several hours a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 as the first camp created after Adolf Hitler relegated complete control of the Nazi concentration camp system to the SS. More than 200,000 people were imprisoned in Sachsenhausen between 1936 and 1945, with tens of thousands being killed due to hunger, disease, forced industrial labor, and medical experiments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s verdict relies on recent German legal precedent, dating back to 2011, establishing that those who helped a Nazi camp function may be prosecuted for accessory to murder.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, courts have sentenced several people using the precedent.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German regional court handed a 101-year-old man who served as a Nazi guard a five-year prison sentence on Tuesday.\u00a0 The defendant, identified by local media only as Josef S., was charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder related to crimes carried out in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen during World War II. 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