German prosecutors seek 5 years for alleged ex-Nazi guard

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have sought a five-year prison sentence for a 101-year-old man who is on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II. The defendant is charged with 3,518 counts of being an 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. A prosecutor told the defendant on Tuesday that he “accepted the dehumanization of the victims.” The defendant has told the court that he didn’t know the Sachsenhausen camp.