Bruno Dey, 92, is accused of contributing to the deaths of prisoners at the Stutthof camp in present-day Poland.
A 92-year-old man accused of playing a role in the deaths of more than 5,000 prisoners in a Nazi death camp is to go on trial in October.
Accused of having contributed to the killing of 5,230 prisoners, he said he is not to blame because he feared for his own life and so could not escape, even though he knew of the atrocities being carried out,Dey insists he was never a Nazi and only ended up in the SS-Totenkopfsturmbahn which ran the camp, because of a heart disease.
Despite his advanced age, Dey will be tried by a juvenile court in Hamburg because he was 17 when he first worked at Stutthof. His trial will start on October 17 and he will face 5,230 counts of accessory to murderEfraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said that it was right to try Dey.
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