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Stutthof Camp: Holocaust guard Harry S found unfit to stand trial at 96
Source: BBC
Stutthof Camp: Holocaust guard Harry S found unfit to stand trial at 96
10 March 2021
A court in Germany has declared a 96-year-old former Nazi camp guard unfit to stand trial but ruled that he should pay his own legal fees.
The man, named as Harry S, was accused of complicity in the murder of several hundred people at Stutthof Camp.
The court in Wuppertal said there was a "high degree of probability" he was guilty of the crimes.
His is one of three recent cases related to the Stutthof camp, which was located in then Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Harry S was a guard at Stutthof between June 1944 and May 1945.
He is alleged to have overseen the transportation of nearly 600 prisoners to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in September 1944.
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10 March 2021
A court in Germany has declared a 96-year-old former Nazi camp guard unfit to stand trial but ruled that he should pay his own legal fees.
The man, named as Harry S, was accused of complicity in the murder of several hundred people at Stutthof Camp.
The court in Wuppertal said there was a "high degree of probability" he was guilty of the crimes.
His is one of three recent cases related to the Stutthof camp, which was located in then Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Harry S was a guard at Stutthof between June 1944 and May 1945.
He is alleged to have overseen the transportation of nearly 600 prisoners to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in September 1944.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56353913
