Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, reveals horror of hearing victims banging on gas chamber doors to be let out – The Sun

A FORMER Nazi concentration camp guard has revealed how he heard victims bang on the gas chamber doors begging to be let out.

SS Private Bruno Dey testified at his trial on Friday in Hamburg as he faces 5,239 counts of accessory to murder for killings while he was at Stutthof from 1944 to 1945.

The judged asked Dey what he saw from the sentry watchtower and he said: "That people were led in, into the gas chamber, that the door was locked."

Dey said he heard screams and banging shortly afterwards.

He claimed: "I didn't know that they were being gassed."

Dey said he saw about 20 or 30 prisoners being led in and they didn't resist.

He said he couldn't tell if they were men or women, because their heads were shaved, or if they were Jews or other prisoners.

He also couldn't say what happened afterwards.

Dey said: "I didn't see anyone come out."

He also testified on another occasion he saw a group of 10 or 15 men being led into the gas chamber.

Dey said they then came out and were taken by people in white overalls to the crematorium building.

He told the judge he heard prisoners were supposed to work outside the camp and to be checked first.

'WAR CRIMINAL'

Dey said he and about 400 other soldiers were brought to Stuffhof in June or July 1944.

He said he didn't know what kind of prisoners were being held there and it was only "rumours" they included Jews and political prisoners.

There is no evidence Dey was involved in a specific killing at the camp near Danzig, which is today the Polish city Gdansk.

Prosecutors argue that as a guard he helped the camp function.

Dey is being tried in a juvenile court because he was 17 at the time he was serving at Stuffhof.

If convicted he faces six months to 10 years in prison, and there are no consecutive sentences under German law.

Dey's trial comes after another Nazi solider and convicted war criminal facing five years in jail died awaiting his new trial.

Karl Münter, who is now 96, was convicted and originally sentenced to death for his role in the massacre of 86 people in the French village of Ascq, when he was a member of the SS.

He faced five years in jail after denying that six million Jews died in the Holocaust in a brazen televised interview.

The former SS solider was convicted and originally sentenced to death for his role in the massacre of 86 people in the French village of Ascq but was later pardoned and never properly prosecuted.

At the time of his death he was facing new charges of incitement and disparaging the memory of Nazi victims after claiming those who died had brought their deaths upon themselves by "running away".

In an interview with German channel ARD last November, Münter said that the victims deserved to be shot and that he didn't regret participating in the war crimes.

When asked if he had an regrets he said: “No, not at all! Why should I regret it I didn’t fire a shot.”

Münter added: “And the matter of the Jews that is attributed to (Hitler)… be careful.

“There weren't millions of Jews (in Germany) at the time, that's already been disproved. This number – six million – is not correct.”

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