100-Year-Old Denies Being Accessory to Murder at Nazi Camp

100-Year-Old Denies Being Accessory to Murder at Nazi Camp
Lawyer Stefan Waterkamp covers the face of accused Josef S. as they arrive at a courtroom in Brandenburg, Germany, on Oct. 7, 2021. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
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BERLIN—A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II told a German court Friday that he was innocent.

The defendant is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, where he allegedly worked between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing.