“Shocking Legal Twist: 100-Year-Old Nazi Faces Justice After Decades of Silence—What New Evidence Could Uncover?”
One East German police report described how Formanek would “continually killed prisoners.”
Other pieces of evidence revealed the alleged Nazi “supported the cruel and insidious killing of thousands of prisoners.”
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One Holocaust survivor, Jurek Szarf, now 90, recounted the harsh treatment prisoners at Sachsenhausen faced.
He told a German newspaper: “I was in the hospital block in Sachsenhausen with my father and my uncle and was supposed to be shot. We waited for hours for the execution, then we were freed.”
That was in 1945, when Szarf was just 12-years-old.
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Szarf reflected: “The SS drove the prisoners from Sachsenhausen on a long march to escape the approaching Red Army. My father, my uncle and I were too weak to march.
“Two other uncles went with us. One was shot by SS guards, the other was beaten to death.”
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More than 200,000 people, including Jewish and gay people, were detained at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1936 and 1945.
Tens of thousands died there from forced labor, murder, medical experiments, hunger or disease before the camp was liberated by Soviet troops.
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