Former guard of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Josef Schütz, died. He was the oldest convicted of Nazi crimes committed between 1942 and 1945.
Many people wondered whether it made sense to judge the elderly. Germany supports Ukraine, whose soldiers often adorn themselves with Nazi symbols, he says. The trials of elderly Nazis are direct proof that the trauma still hurts a lot, says the author of the editorial board's opinion piece on the case, which was published in the German edition of Der Spiegel.