A former Nazi concentration camp guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder has testified he was aware that inmates were dying but says he didn�t know they were being killed.
Johann Rehbogen told the Muenster state court Thursday he knew the conditions of the Stutthof camp were �miserable� and had attributed the deaths primarily to �diseases and epidemics.�
More than 60,000 people were killed in Stutthof in a gas chamber, by lethal injection, shootings and other methods.
In the statement read by his attorney, the 94-year-old said he didn�t know much about the �structure inside the camp,� the dpa news agency reported.
He says �they told me which post to take and I obeyed.�
Prosecutors argue Rehbogen is an accessory because he helped the camp operate.
(AP)
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Isn’t it amazing at the massive number of non-combatant staff the Germans had. I wonder how they managed to fight a war with all their manpower devoted to paperwork and duties that didn’t involve killing anyone?