A 93-year-old German man who was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder for his part in the death of prisoners at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as a guard, has dropped all pending appeals, the Associated Press reports.
Because he was 17 and 18 years old when he served at the camp in 1944 and 1945, Bruno Dey was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence in a juvenile court, per German law.
In recent years, German prosecutors have started prosecuting men who served as guards at the Nazi camps under the rationale that they were accessories to the murders of prisoners by keeping them in the camps.
Stutthof was not an extermination camp, but rather a work camp where prisoners were literally worked to death at the direction of camp guards. The AP notes that more than 60,000 people were killed there by being given lethal injections of gasoline or phenol directly to their hearts, shot or starved.