Nazi camp guard denies involvement in murders

A 101-year-old former guard at a Nazi concentration camp north of Berlin has denied knowing a murder campaign was going on there.

Josef Schuetz, the oldest person charged with complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust, has pleaded not guilty, disputing any involvement in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp from 1942 to 1945. Even if convicted, he is highly unlikely to be jailed given his age.

The 2011 conviction of former guard John Demjanjuk, on the basis that he served as part of Hitler’s killing machine, set a precedent and paved the way for several more “twilight justice cases”.