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Former SS Camp Guard Tells Court he's "Haunted" by Killings

Associated Press

   BERLIN - A 93-year-old German former Stutthof guard on trial in Hamburg
   on thousands of counts of accessory to murder testified Monday he
   regrets having served in the Nazi concentration camp.

   Bruno Dey, a former SS private, told the court that "the images of
   misery and horror have haunted me my entire life," the German dpa news
   agency reported.

   He apologized to the victims of the camp, saying that he had been
   posted there unwillingly after being deemed unfit for combat duty due
   to a heart ailment.

   The comments from Dey, in a short statement and in answer to questions
   from Presiding Judge Anne Meier-Goering, were his first at his trial,
   which opened last week.

   Though there's no evidence Dey was involved in a specific killing at
   the camp near Danzig, today the Polish city of Gdansk, prosecutors
   argue that as a guard he helped the camp function.

   He faces 5,230 counts of accessory to murder for killings while he was
   there from 1944-45.
   

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