Ex-Nazi camp guard, 93, gets two-year suspended sentenceThe judge said Dey, shown here hiding his face as the verdict was announced, had helped to "dehumanise human beings and turn them into numbers". Dey's defence lawyer Stefan Waterkamp had sought an acquittal or a suspended sentence. He added that as a tower guard, Dey would not have known the extent of the "sadism" and "inhumane conditions" of the camp. - 65,000 deaths -The Nazis set up the Stutthof camp in 1939, initially using it to detain Polish political prisoners. He came into prosecutors' sights after a landmark 2011 ruling against former Sobibor camp guard John Demjanjuk on the basis that he was part of the Nazi killing machine.

Source: Bangkok Post July 23, 2020 10:07 UTC