A 93-year-old man standing trial in Germany for his role in the Holocaust should be given a prison sentence of three years, prosecutors said on Monday.
“The accused is charged with accessory to murder on 5,230 counts,” prosecutor Lars Mahnke told a court in Hamburg.
The defendant, Bruno Dey, was aged 17 and 18 when he served as an SS guard at the Nazi concentration camp in Stutthof between August 9, 1944 and April 26, 1945.
He is being tried by a juvenile court, because of his age at the time of the World War II crimes.
The prosecution argues that Dey had known at the time what was happening at the camp, located near the city of Gdansk, namely that people were being shot in the crematorium. He is said to have recognized that the regime’s mass murder of Jews was wrong.
“In such a situation, loyalty to the perpetrators must end,” Mahnke said, arguing that the man should have quit his post in the watch tower.
The elderly defendant confessed at the beginning of his trial at to having served as a guard at the Stutthof camp, where more than 60,000 people are thought to have died. It was one of the last Nazi death camps to be liberated.
He was drafted to the Wehrmacht armed forces in 1944 but sent to Stutthof — purportedly against his will — because he was not deemed fit to serve on the front lines.
Dey said he saw many dead bodies during his time there but never used his own weapon.
The German national is accused of having “supported the insidious and cruel killing of mostly Jewish prisoners,” according to the prosecution.
One of his tasks was allegedly to prevent prisoners from escaping, revolting or being liberated.
During the trial, Dey also acknowledged witnessing inmates being locked behind a door but insisted that he did not know that it was a door to a gas chamber.
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He should be hanging in the center of the city for the world to see how human beasts are treated.
Dey said he saw many dead bodies during his time there but never used his own weapon.
Assuming what he is saying is true while you are throwing tomatoes can anyone just answer this question without any bioch sevoras.
How would Halacha treat someone who was sent against his will to be an backup accessory to murder but never participated in murder himself?
What would be the Tviah in Beis Din (not in Shomayim) for a guy who only stood on a watchtower without actually doing anything?
I agree that only Hashem can truly judge a guy like this.
Could be he is a tremendous Rosha but if he was there against his will and harmed no one it could be he was an ones.
Even so the pask in halacha is that a beis din follows what they see.
If this guy knew that by remaining there he very likely will end a murderer of innocent people and had a way that he could have gotten out of it then he isn’t innocent(in this world).