<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656418123202,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-8cce-d87c-af7f-ddce9ca80000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656418123202,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-8cce-d87c-af7f-ddce9ca80000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_56343335", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1041556"} }); ","_id":"00000181-aa36-d447-ad8b-faf6b5550000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedA 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced to five years in prison for being an accessory to the murder of 3,518 World War II prisoners.
Josef Schuetz, the oldest person to stand trial for Holocaust war crimes, was found guilty Tuesday in a trial that began in 2021 but was delayed several times due to his health, according to a report.
Josef Schuetz trial“I don’t know why I am here,” Schuetz said at the close of his trial held at the Neuruppin Regional Court in Brandenburg, Germany.
Schuetz, a former prison guard at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, Germany, had pleaded not guilty, saying he did “absolutely nothing” and was unaware of the crimes taking place.
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Prosecutors, however, argued that Schuetz, who was 21 at the time, “knowingly and willingly” participated in killing prisoners through poisonous gas and firing squads.
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The former prison guard will undergo a medical evaluation to determine if he is fit to be in prison, but his lawyers say they plan to appeal the verdict — a move that could delay any prison term by up to 12 months.
Schuetz’s conviction is the latest effort of German prosecutors who seek to bring the final surviving Nazi offenders to court.
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In 2020, 93-year-old Bruno Dey was found guilty and given a two-year suspended sentence. A former Nazi camp secretary, 96-year-old Irmgard Furchner, is also on trial in Itzehoe, Germany.
