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92-year-old ex-Nazi camp guard accused of helping kill 5,000 prisoners at age 17

19 April 2019 04:17 (UTC +04:00)

On Thursday, a German chief prosecutor charged a 92-year-old man from Hamburg identified by the German outlet Die Welt as Bruno Dey with assisting in the murders of 5,230 Jewish prisoners during his tenure as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II, ONA rpeorts quoting sputniknews.

Dey was 17 years old at the time he committed the crimes he stands accused of, and will be tried as a juvenile by the court.

According to Die Welt, Dey was a member of the SS, the Nazi paramilitary organization that in large part directly enacted and oversaw the regime's genocidal goals. He served as a watchman on a guard tower at the Stutthof camp near the city of Danzig, now Gdansk, in Poland, for eight months toward the tail end of World War II, between 1944 and 1945.