A 101-year-old man accused of being a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is denying the accusations against him, claiming he was merely a farmhand working nearby the camp, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports.
The man, Josef S., spoke out on Thursday for the first time since his trial began. In his statement, which was read by his defense lawyer, he declared that he was a laborer at a factory and farm, not an SS watchman who aided in the murder of thousands of prisoners between 1941 and 1945 as the prosecution alleges.
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