100-year-old denies being accessory to murder at Nazi camp

Josef Schuetz has been charged with more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.

A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II has told a German court he is innocent.

The defendant, Josef Schuetz, is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. He allegedly worked at the camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing.

On Friday, during the second day of his trial before the Neuruppin state court, Schuetz denied the charges levelled against him and insisted that he knew nothing about what happened at the Sachsenhausen camp.