Bruno Dey was tried as a juvenile because he was only 17 when he began working as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp.
YouTubeThough purportedly remorseful, Bruno Dey shielded himself from the press while attending court.
In what may be one of the last verdicts doled out to a living participant, 93-year-old Bruno Day was found guilty in a Hamburg state court last Thursday — of 5,230 counts of accessory to murder.
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According to The New York Times, the elderly man was just 17 years old when he began working a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp. Due to his status as a minor from August 1944 to April 1945, he was tried in juvenile court and given a two-year suspended sentence.
Each count of accessory to murder reflected one person believed to have been killed at the camp, which was east of Gdansk in Poland. Dey appeared remorseful and contrite, and the prosecutor acknowledged that the defendant had been nothing but cooperative. Others were shocked at the ruling.
“It is unsatisfactory and much too late,” said Christoph Heubner of the International Auschwitz Committee. “What is upsetting for survivors is that this defendant failed to use the many postwar years of his life to reflect on what he saw and heard.”