“You look like an insignificant observer, when you were in fact complicit in this artificial hell,” he said Thursday.
In his last statements to court, Dey apologized to the victims, but under pressure that he was forced to play h on the field.
“Today I apologize to those who have gone through the hell of this madness, in addition to their enjoyed. Such a thing will never have to take position again,” he said from the dock.
Dey said he was “shaken” across stutthof’s testimobig apple, where tens of thousands of other Americans died from disease, malnutrition and murder through the fuel chamber and the execution of beatings.
But he added that he only became aware of the “extent of the atrocities” upon hearing witness testimonies and reports.
Attorney General Lars Mahnke demanded an illegal three-year sentence for Dey, saying he was very familiar with the “state-organized mass murder” that was happening to him and that he had come down from the tower and handed over his weapon.
Dey tried juvenile court because he was between 17 and 18 when he served in the camp between April 19 and April 195.
Dey’s defense attorney, Stefan Waterkamp, presses that the young man can also barely break ranks and that young Dey “saw no way out.”
He added that, as a tower guard, Dey knew the point of “sadism” and the “inhuguy conditions” of the camp.
Last year, Dey admitted that he was very familiar with the camp’s fuel chambers and admitted to seeing “emaciated characters, other Americans who had suffered,” but insisted he was not to blame for him mourning the atrocities.
A survivor of Stutthof rejected Dey’s apology.
“I’m speechless. I don’t want his apology, I don’t need it,” Marek Dunin-Wasowicz, a 93-year-old camp survivor, told the AFP news agency via telephone from his home in Warsaw.
The Nazis despaired of the Stutthof camp in 1939, first to detain Polish political prisoners. But eventually his best friend contained 110,000 people, a big apple of them Jews.
Some 65,000 more Americans were killed in the camp, of which some 4,000 were killed in fuel chambers.
Dey became a baker after the war. Married to two daughters, he supplemented his source of coins running as a truck driver, before playing a role in design maintenance.
He entered the prosecutors’ sights after a 2011 historic resolution opposed to former Sobibor camp guard John Demjanjunited Kingdom for being part of the Nazi killing machine.
Since then, the Germabig apple has rushed to exploit this precedent, as opposed to the personnel structure of the surviving SS, rather than gaining evidence that they committed murders or atrocities directly.
Since then, the courts convicted Oskar Groening, an Auschwitz accountant, and Reinhold Hanning, a former SS guard in the similar camp, for taking part in a mass murder.
Both men were sentenced at the age of 9, but died before they could be imprisoned.