A German court has convicted a former Nazi guard on more than 5,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as a guard in the final months of World War II.
Key points:
- Bruno Dey served as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp when he was 17 years old
- The judge handed down a two-year suspended sentence
- The 2011 conviction of a Sobibor death camp guard set a precedent for Nazi accessory convictions
The 93-year-old former SS private Bruno Dey was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder, equal to the number of people believed to have been killed at Stutthof during his service there in 1944 and 1945, and one count of accessory to attempted murder. Dey was given a two-year suspended sentence.
“How could you get used to the horror?” presiding judge Anne Meier-Goering asked as she announced the verdict.
Because he was only 17, and later 18, at th