Josef S is accused of killing 3,518 prisoners on the Sachsenhausen focus camp, the place 10,000 folks misplaced their lives in gasoline chambers, mass shootings and medical experiments
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A former Nazi SS guard says he was “only a farmhand” within the Second World Conflict as he’s accused of mass homicide.
The 101-year-old named solely as Josef S is accused of killing 3,518 prisoners on the Sachsenhausen focus camp.
Some 10,000 died there, within the gasoline chambers or mass shootings; in medical experiments; labored to demise or killed by inhumane circumstances.
A court docket in Brandenburg an der Havel, close to German capital Berlin, heard Josef S was a camp guard.
However he claimed he had labored on an property close by the place he shod horses for a farmer.
He admitted serving to the German defence effort because the Russians superior in 1945, however once more as a civilian.
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He mentioned he had no uniform or gun, solely a spade.
He mentioned: “I helped dig trenches… felled timber.” The choose learn out pension papers saying: “From 1941 to 1945, army service.”
Josef S mentioned he signed the types “with out correctly studying them”.
Docs say Josef S, who denies the fees, is match to offer proof however just for two-and-a-half hours per day.
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