The 101-year-old, who in the German media is called Josef S, denies that he, as the prosecutor claimed, worked in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1942 and 1945. But the court in German Neuruppin follows the prosecutor’s line. According to the verdict, Josef S worked in the camp, knew that prisoners had been murdered and through his work made these murders possible.
The trial against the 101-year-old is believed to be one of the last lawsuits involving former employees in concentration camps. The process has received a lot of attention – when the trial began in October last year, it had to be held in a gym so that all the audience would have a place.
79-year-old Antoine Grumbach is one of the 16 plaintiffs. He lost his father in Sachsenhausen, before he got the chance to get to know him. The father died when Antoine Grumbach was only two years old.
During the first day of the trial, Antoine Grumbach told DN that he had chosen to pursue the process for three reasons.
– Partly I want, of course – to honor my father. On the one hand, I want the world to know how the murder machinery in Sachsenhausen worked. And so I want this man, who is a representative of all the guards who worked in the concentration camps, to be brought to justice, he said then.
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“I just want him to look at us and feel guilty