China News Agency, Berlin, July 23 (Reporter Peng Dawei) Germany has recently conducted another trial of participants in the Nazi Holocaust. On the 23rd, the Hamburg District Court ruled that Bruno Day, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard, played the role of an accomplice in the massacre of 5,232 people. However, because he was only 17 years old when he was a guard at a concentration camp, the court sentenced him to 2 years in prison under the Juvenile Criminal Law with a suspended execution.
This trial is considered to be one of Germany’s judicial actions against the last remaining participants in the Holocaust.
According to a German TV station, in 1944, 17-year-old Bruno Day went to the Stutthof concentration camp located in present-day Poland as a guard until the following year. He was accused of playing an accomplice in the massacre of 5,232 people and was also responsible for an attempted murder.
The trial began in October 2019. The defendant Bruno Day admitted that he had served as a guard at the Stutthof Concentration Camp near Gdansk, Poland, from August 1944 to April of the following year, but he argued At that time, the soldier of the Nazi Wehrmacht did not choose this job voluntarily, but was dispatched to the concentration camp because of a heart health defect and unable to go to the front line.
In the final statement of the trial, Bruno Day apologized to the survivors and the families of the deceased, and prayed for forgiveness: "I want to apologize to those who have experienced this crazy hellish behavior today. This kind of thing must never happen again. ."
Germany's liquidation of the Nazis was protracted. Germany’s “Central Investigation Office for Nazi Crimes” stated that there are currently 14 cases involving Nazi concentration camps still under investigation by German prosecutors at all levels. Among them, the district court in the western city of Wuppertal is evaluating whether to try another 95-year-old man who was also the guard of the Stutthof concentration camp.
In 2017, the prosecutors in Hanover, Germany rejected the 96-year-old former Nazi SS member Oscar Glenning’s application for probation and ordered him to serve four years in prison. (Finish)