The World : Ex-Nazi Trusty Sentenced
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A former concentration camp prisoner, entrusted by SS (Nazi elite force) guards with overseeing fellow inmates, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 1941 murder of a Polish prisoner. Otto Heidemann, 74, who denied he had ever been a kapo, or inmate overseer, had to be carried into the West Berlin courtroom on a stretcher to hear the verdict. The court found that prisoner-overseers at Mauthausen--one of the Nazis’ worst concentration camps--had been ordered by SS guards to kill inmates who could no longer work.
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