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Bruno Dey: Former Nazi guard found guilty over mass murder at Stutthof Camp

A 93-year-old former Nazi SS concentration camp guard has been found guilty of complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners.

Bruno Dey was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence by a court in the German city of Hamburg.

Dey had manned a tower at the Stutthof Camp in what was then occupied Poland.

It is expected to be one of the last Nazi-era trials, as both survivors and perpetrators are now very old, and in some cases their memories are failing.

Dey was tried in a juvenile court because he was 17 at the time the atrocities were carried out, between August 1944 and April 1945, according to the indictment.

Apology for 'the hell of this madness'

During the nine-month trial, Dey listened to witness statements but maintained he had been forced into his role as a guard at the camp and had not been involved in the killings.

In his last statement to the court, he said he had been "shaken" by the witness accounts and apologised to "those who went through the hell of this madness". However, he added that he had not been aware of the "extent of the atrocities" until the trial.

Sentencing Dey, the judge acknowledged his willingness to take part in the trial but said he had refused to acknowledge his own complicity in what was going on. "You saw yourself as an observer," the judge said.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53511391

[Asmara]

If anything, Tigray warlords and current crime perpetrators (Tigrian gangsters) will face justice at some point in the future. All these crimes - looting, killing, raping happenening in Tigray at the moment is the work of TPLF remnants or gangs who are taking advantage of the absence of law and order in Tigray after the total defeat of TPLF army. Blaming these on Eritreans is not going to cut it. Eritreans are not known for these types of behaviours.