Former Nazi camp guard to go on trial in Hamburg
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#4SNWQ)
Bruno Dey, 93, accused of being accessory to murder of 5,230 people in what could be one of last of such cases
A former guard at Stutthof concentration camp will go on trial in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday, in what could be one of the last criminal cases of an individual charged over the Holocaust.
The 93-year-old man, Bruno Dey, was 17 when he joined the SS-Totenkopfsturmbann (Death's Head Battalion), which manned the watchtowers at the concentration camp east of what is now the city of GdaAsk, in Poland.
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