← back to the archive // episode file

101-Year-Old Former German Guard Was Just Sentenced to 5 Years

#concentrationcamp#aiding#germany#fiveyears#nazi
the transcript auto-captions · entered into evidence

0:00 [Music] in nazi news oh great my favorite it is kind of cool news though he has to say something why not it's my favorite you gotta say something it's pretty fascinating is hitler still alive it's pretty fascinating that they're still like nazi news right oh yeah a 101 year old former nazi guard was just sentenced to five years in prison for aiding in more than 3 500 murders during the holidays did he laugh he's like i'm 101 you know five years really five five years that's all you get for doing all that a life sentence for him the specific number is actually uh he has just been convicted of aiding in three thousand five hundred and eighteen murders while he was a nazi camp guard eating in three thousand murders for and

0:51 he gets five years ago is it in germany like they found him in germany i found him on a carnival crew a princess scream he was singing my way we are going live hi man i have it my this oh man so yeah uh he was convicted on tuesday for aiding and abetting the murders of more than 3 500 people while serving it as a guard uh at a nazi concentration camp during the holocaust and uh pretty much the uh in germany yes it was in germany they

1:42 found the man guilty of 3518 counts of accessory to murder over killings that took place between january 1942 to february 1945. the man denied working as a sh shoot stuff should stop i got this point this is my people shoot shoot stuff there you go an ss guard in the [Laughter] just north of berlin per the german newspaper uh the court did not name the man due to germany's privacy laws but several local outlets identified the man as joseph s

2:32 yes oh sss i really the really narrow yeah that'll be good the man claimed that he worked as a farm laborer in northeastern germany during world war ii but the quote you got him there but the court said the prosecution had proven that he was the guard in question that's a picture of him like grave style says joseph s he goes what that is not me ironically uh the prosecution had presented the court with photos documents and ss personnel records matching his personal details i think he's today they're they're taking pictures in the camp like these aren't gonna bite us in the ass at any time in the future he's doing he's doing my way in the camp on video and they matched it they matched it

3:23 that he had led prisoners to gas chambers or to their executions but didn't prove whether or not he took part in the act of killing them well that's his button pushing right yeah yeah he's just doing his job right yeah during the case a historian detailed the prisoners dismal conditions at sakshin saxon housing session and 16 joint plaintiffs including 10 holocaust survivors were also involved in the proceedings so like this guy for real pharaoh did get caught i like the fact that you said uh that he's just kind of the button pusher like how what does that mean to you so i don't know i feel like if you're a shot caller right they deserve like full-on war crime penalties but then sometimes if you're like like let's say you're drafted on their side right like i have a little bit of empathy because i'm like they're just a german taken over by some crazy dictator and then

4:13 they they don't want to get killed right they still want to be like a breadwinner for their family so i think like like uh morality-wise i'm like ████ i don't know man because like if he's just like well i guess i'm gonna be a guard for these people and i'm following what my president or my leader wants to do he's doing what he thinks is right yeah he's doing what he's thinking he's not masterminding the whole that's the banality of evil though right that's the that's the whole thing they talk about during the holocaust and during world war ii is that you have all these pictures and videos from germany and all the you know access controlled like uh countries and everyone's just like kind of going about their day because that's their reality but if you i mean if you still take a step back you have to be like oh well still ████ evil yeah still ████ evil you're participating in this you know greater evil of things so that's the that's the back and forth i mean it's easier for us to 100 because well it's the same argument we're having right now with like um a lot of soldiers

5:04 that are fighting for russia right they're just like yeah a lot of these guys don't even know that there's a war going on they're just like they just got sent there and they're just like oh ████ we're shooting shooting actual bullets of people they thought it was a military action yeah they're like i joined because i'm patriotic and then later on they're like oh are shooting ukrainians what the ████ imagine you're a russian soldier but you're working on the east the eastern border and you're just like i don't know what everyone's talking about we're not doing ████ over here this is asia right yeah it's like it's a big country got a ████ huge border wheat on this side yeah it's like there's a beach i don't know [Laughter] you're so sorry i did see uh i think i forgot what it was called it's on hbo there was a recent movie that came out about a a fighter or a boxer in the concentration camps anybody know what i'm talking about it's not hbo there's so much um but it paints a it's a movie and it's mainly black and white or some ████ like that but it paints uh the story like a jewish boxer yeah so it was a jewish

5:55 dude who was in a concentration camp and then one of like the ss guards or whatever i don't know what the proper term is but it's just like you like i saw you uh punch this one dude and that's kind of how the movie starts he's like come come do this thing and then he brings him in he like treats him all good and stuff but then he has him fight other jews in boxing rings and i'm talking to the death type ████ right so then there's um but he apparently was really really good so after the war was over he again uh he tries to box in america but then uh spoiler he gets outed as uh the boxer who was notorious in the jewish camps for fighting other jews and he's jewish himself exactly so he's a backstabber exactly but the the comp the complexity is that same thing right you're in a concentration camp you don't really have a lot of choices and then you're presented with this option in one sense and he and even during that it shows a conflict where it's not like

6:46 he wants to fight to the death but when you get put into a ring and you have to fight for the death it's either you fight for the death or you die because the other guy's gonna do it i'll kill you you should have done the right thing and what's the right thing not to not to kill anybody i think you're right thank you which which it's hard to say these kinds of things not at all trying to paint the picture like this guy was a button pusher and like he had no moral wrongdoing and participated out for the ████ idiots that think that you're justifying it it's the best well yes yes i mean if you're 101 years old and these crimes that you're being prosecuted for were 70 or 60 years how what is that yeah what took him so ████ long 7 84 70 to yeah 70 years plus ago and now you're like 101 and now you get five

7:37 years of jail time like where are you guys how are you are you laughing at it imagine you felt like you got away with everything and then at 101 they tell you you're going to jail you're like you did because 101 i was like you got to live out most of your life as a free person you're not free it was 101 bro you need people to wipe your ass for you so you might as well be in jail that's literally where you go in a retirement home you're in jail but it's like does he even know what's going on at this point like maybe he's just like mentally like calls himself out at 101 he's like hey by the way i was aiding into bedding can somebody put me in this institution hey i just duked myself could somebody clean it up please ████ sakes a picture of them right uh they tried to keep his identity so literally there's no picture i'm talking like for privacy laws in germany this is all we get

8:27 [Laughter] i know right horses he's 101 years old you just ████ his pants right now that's why he's embarrassed he put it covered his face this is my way that's crazy this is my way isn't that crazy look at old people and they all look innocent but then when you think about it they're involved done s█████ ████ well some old people look evil like who i don't know we could go out on the street we can go find someone ████ oh my god robert de niro kind of looks like he could be like yeah grumpy grumpy older or not no maybe he's cause he's always held these like mafia roll you know roles and stuff like he looks like he's done some ████ yeah i know after analyze this i was like that ████ is so shady robin robert de niro looks like the kind of guy you bring your girlfriend home and then he kisses her on the lips and you're like

9:17 really dad what the ████ i just realized you're wearing two ████ hats right now dude joe biden is my ████ president talking about old guys he looks like like how old is he he looks like he kisses a girlfriend he kisses him on the back of the neck bro he plays like when you get when you call him out for like why'd you kiss my wife he's like what oh what are you talking about he looks like guys like i remember when your grandmother was just small yeah she was in my shower she was in the shower with me wait what'd you say [Music]

10:13 you

// end of tape