Coburg public prosecutor investigates former concentration camp guard – Bavaria

The Coburg public prosecutor is investigating a former security guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. A spokesman for the authority confirmed this to the Evangelical Press Service on request. Previously had the taz reported on the case. According to the newspaper report, the man is a 98-year-old man who is accused of serving in the main camp in Ravensbrück from April 1943 to May 1945, thereby making the deaths of prisoners possible in the first place. It is about a possible accessory to murder, writes the newspaper.

The procedure is now in Coburg, as the accused lives in the region. Because the accused was not of legal age at the time of his alleged crimes, youth criminal law applies to him. The responsible public prosecutor said that the investigations were not yet completed taz With. A historian was entrusted with preparing an expert opinion on the Ravensbrück concentration camp. A medical report indicates that the accused is fit to stand trial.

Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women, 20,000 men and 1,000 young women from the “Uckermark youth protection camp” were registered as prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. They came from more than 40 nations, including numerous Jews and Sinti and Roma. Tens of thousands were murdered or died of starvation, disease or medical experiments. Around 6,000 prisoners died in just one gas chamber built at the end of 1944. At the end of April 1945, the SS drove tens of thousands of prisoners on death marches to the north-west. Around 3,000 sick people who had been left behind were liberated by the Red Army on April 30, 1945.

According to the newspaper report, the Neuruppin public prosecutor’s office is also investigating a 99-year-old woman who was employed as a guard in Ravensbrück and is investigating whether a 98-year-old man who was apparently employed as a guard in Sachsenhausen concentration camp can be charged taz further.

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