Ex-Nazi camp guard, 93, gets two-year suspended sentence

A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was handed a suspended sentence of two years yesterday for complicity in World War II atrocities, in what could be one of the last such cases of surviving SS guards. Bruno Dey was convicted for his role in the murder of 5,232 people when he was a teenaged SS tower guard at the Stutthof camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk, in Poland. Judge Anne Meier-Goering said Dey had helped to "dehumanise human beings and turn them into numbers". In his last statements to the court, Dey had apologised to victims but stressed that he had been forced into his role at the camp. Dey was given a juvenile sentence because he was 17 or 18 years old when he served at the camp between April 1944 and April 1945.

Source: AFP

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