“I am innocent,” said Josef S, who stands accused of “knowingly and willingly” assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. (article continues below) See also on The Local:The Sachsenhausen camp detained more than 200,000 people between 1936 and 1945, including Jews, Roma, regime opponents and gay people. More than seven decades after World War II, German prosecutors are racing to bring the last surviving Nazi perpetrators to justice. Separately in the northern German town of Itzehoe, a 96-year-old former secretary in a Nazi death camp is on trial for complicity in murder. READ ALSO: Former Nazi camp secretary caught after escape bidBy David COURBET

Source: The Local October 08, 2021 11:48 UTC