Germany seeks five-years' jail for ex-Nazi guard, now 101
German prosecutors on Tuesday sought five years in jail for a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person charged with complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.
Josef Schuetz has pleaded innocent, disputing any involvement in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
But prosecutors in Brandenburg state said he had "knowingly and willingly" participated in the crimes as a guard at the camp.
They also determined that "the evidence put forward in the indictment has been fully confirmed", a spokeswoman for the court told AFP.
More than 200,000 people including Jews, Roma, regime opponents and gay people were detained at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1936 and 1945.
Tens of thousands of inmates died from forced labour, murder, medical experiments, hunger or disease before the camp was liberated by Soviet troops, according to the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum.
Cross-examined about his work at the camp, Schuetz had denied knowledge about what happened there.
He also insisted that he did "absolutely nothing".
The allegations against him include aiding and abetting the "execution...