Alfons Studzinski was imprisoned at the age of 16 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Josef S., who is said to have served as an SS man there at the same time, is now on trial. Why the two should meet today.
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Renate Meinhof, Moers / Brandenburg an der Havel
He still appears tall, slender and erect, as tall and slender as the accused. But because his legs haven’t been going the way he wants for a year, Alfons Studzinski sits on two airy, gently rocking cushions as if on a throne, in order to get up from the sofa more easily. A year ago his wife died. “You survived the camp, you survived me too,” she always said when they asked each other in the 72 years of their marriage which of the two would probably leave the earth first. “Not you, me! No, me. But no, I’ll go ahead!”