A German court sentenced a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to five years in prison on Tuesday on charges of being an accessory to over 3,500 deaths at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
German authorities were able to determine that Joseph S. worked at Sachsenhausen by going through old camp records returned to Moscow by the Soviet Union’s Red Army, theThe Sachsenhausen camp, located north of Berlin, primarily interned over 200,000 people at the camp from 1936 to 1945,to a German government website. By 1944, most detainees were political prisoners of war from either the Soviet Union or Poland.
A prosecutor with the German government involved in Mr. S.’s case stated that there was no statute of limitations for murder, theDuring sentencing, Judge Udo Lechtermann told Mr. S that by virtue of being a guard he had been an accomplice to the crimes that took place in the camp.
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