Bruno Dey

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Bruno Dey (* 1927 ) is a former German SS man . As a member of the 1st Company of the Totenkopfsturmbann , he performed guard duty in the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig from August 9, 1944 to April 26, 1945 . In August 2019, the Hamburg Regional Court opened proceedings against Dey for aiding and abetting murder in at least 5230 cases. On July 23, 2020, Dey was sentenced to two years suspended prison sentence for aiding and abetting murder in 5232 cases and for aiding and abetting attempted murder.

Life

Bruno Dey was drafted into the Wehrmacht when he was still a teenager and transferred from there to the SS. According to his own statement, he was not "fit for war use" because of a heart defect and therefore came to the guard duty.

Stutthof trial

In 2016, documents were found in the archive of the Stutthof concentration camp, on which Bruno Dey was recorded as a security guard. This led to further inquiries and ultimately to an indictment at the Hamburg Regional Court in April 2019 by the Chief Public Prosecutor Lars Mahnke. In a 79-page indictment, Dey did not accuse Dey of any concrete acts, but because of his membership of the security team he was "a little cog in the killing machine of the concentration camp" and was therefore guilty of complicity in murder in at least 5230 provable cases. Without the armed watchdogs who were supposed to prevent or stop attempts to escape, the crimes in the camp would not have been possible.

Web links

BBC: Germany: Ex-SS guard tells Stutthof murder trial 'I want to forget'. BBC, May 21, 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Per Hinrichs: The concentration camp guard and the screams from the gas chamber. Welt.de, August 8, 2019
  2. ↑ Hauke ​​Friederichs: The murderer among us. In: The time . July 23, 2020, accessed July 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Julian Feldmann: Under charge. Jewish General, May 14, 2020
  4. ↑ Friederike Lübke: Bruno D. speaks in court - and feels sorry for himself. Zeit.de, October 22, 2019
  5. ↑ Julia Jüttner: The old man and the murders. Spiegel.de, February 4, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Dey, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS man and concentration camp guard
DATE OF BIRTH 1927