In the trial of the former SS guard Josef S. in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the testimony of the first witness was expected on Thursday. The now 100-year-old accused is accused of having knowingly and willingly assisted the murder of thousands of camp inmates in the years 1942 to 45. The summoned witness, 92-year-old Emil Farkas, was himself a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He traveled from Israel to testify. Farka’s attorney Thomas Walther says that his client’s recollections made it clear to all those present that the defendant’s offenses required a court judgment. “And the shoe test route, that was practically the presentation plate on which the power of the leadership of this concentration camp was demonstrated. Prisoners race for ten hours a day and have to march and sing and he was one of them. “Efraim Zuroff, is director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is dedicated to finding Nazi war criminals and to court He contradicts the widespread argument that perpetrators of the Nazi regime are no longer brought to justice because of their old age. “Remember, he didn’t commit these acts yesterday, he was a young man then, full of energy, and this energy he used to kill innocent men, women and children just because they were considered enemies of the empire. ” According to his observation, it was common for perpetrators like Josef S. to show no remorse. “None of these people show remorse, which really surprises me because so much information is now available about that time – there are films, plays, books, you could think that these people might have read a bit in the meantime and have come to the conclusion that they had done something wrong, but unfortunately that is not the case. “Court proceedings like this in Neuruppin, Brandenburg are important to counteract a misrepresentation of history, said Zuroff. In Sachsenhausen mainly political prisoners from all over Europe were housed, but also Soviet prisoners of war and some Jews.