A man from 62 who was sentenced last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has appealed, a German court reported Monday.
The man, whom the local media have identified as Josef Schuetz, was sentenced last Tuesday for more than 3,500 charges of complicity in murder and sentenced to five years in prison.
He had denied having worked with or SS guard at the Sachsenhausen camp and having aided and abetted the murder of thousands of prisoners.
But the Neuruppin state court concluded that, in fact, he worked in the camp outside from Berlin between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.
Prosecutors based their case on documents related to an SS guard with the name, date and place of birth of the man, as well as other documents.
The five-year prison sentence was in line with the prosecution’s demand. The defendant’s lawyer had asked for acquittal.
However, the Neuruppin court said on Monday that the defendant has now filed an appeal. At the moment it is not clear when it could be considered.
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