Trial Opened Hamburg: October 17, 2019
- A Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard, 93, Is Going on Trial in Germany (David Rising, AP News)
- "But I'm not sorry, to say it clearly." Die Welt (German daily newspaper).
Ben Cohen wants to know if Bruno D. will talk... How deep did these men and women, who had power over life and death at the time, have to bury the images from the concentration camps in order to be able to sleep reasonably well?
—Per Hinrichs, Die Welt, October 16, 2019
Photo of Ben Cohen by Per Hinrichs (appeared in Die Welt, October 16, 2019)
Ex-Nazi death camp guard Bruno Dey goes on trial today in Germany, aged 93, as accessory to 5,230 murders at Stutthof concentration camp
By Anna Noryskiewicz
CBS News
October 17, 2019
CBS News
October 17, 2019
Hamburg, Germany — Bruno Dey was 17 years old when he joined the unit Death's Head unit of Adolf Hitler's SS, the division tasked with running Nazi death camps. On Thursday, now 93, Dey faced the first day of his trial on charges of being an accessory to more than 5,000 murders. It could be the last trial of its kind in Germany, as Dey is one of the few Nazi suspects still alive who could be charged over their actions during the Holocaust.
Minnesota woman testifying against accused Nazi war criminal's case
By Rob Olson
Published October 18, 2019
Fox 9 News (Minneapolis)
Published October 18, 2019
Fox 9 News (Minneapolis)
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A Holocaust survivor from Minnesota is a big part of the case against an accused Nazi war criminal whose trial is now underway.
Standing trial is a man who was a guard at the camp where 90-year-old Judy Meisel was held during the Holocaust. German prosecutors, in recent years, have been aggressively charging surviving camp guards as accessories to murder. |
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CBC Radio · Posted: Oct 18, 2019 6:07 PM ET | Last Updated: October 18, 2019
As It Happens: Grandson of Holocaust survivor bears witness as former Nazi guard goes on trial
Written by Rachel Levy-McLaughlin and John McGill. Interview produced by Rachel Levy-McLaughlin.
The only reason I'm here in Hamburg is because she can't be here herself. She wishes she could have come and stood in that courtroom and given her testimony in person and looked the perpetrator in the eye and faced that herself. — Ben Cohen, CBC Radio (As It Happens)