Josef Schutz, a Nazi concentration camp guard at Sachsenhausen, has been sentenced to five years in prison. The corresponding decision was taken by the court of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel.
As the DPA agency specifies, the former warden was accused of aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of people who had been imprisoned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
At the same time, Schutz denied until the last moment that he had anything to do with the melon crimes. In this connection, the attorneys for the 101-year-old guard plan to file an appeal.
Recall that the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was located in Oranienburg, not far from Berlin. In the period from 1936 to 1945, about 200 thousand prisoners passed through its walls.
On April 22, 1945, the camp was liberated by the Red Army soldiers and Polish troops. For many years on the territory where the camp was, there is a memorial.