Whilst at the Auschwitz Memorial, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee commented on the death of the former SS guard Joseph Schütz as follows:

"Like almost all of the few SS members who were actually brought before a German court, Josef Schütz also refused to speak the truth to the survivors and the young generation. He chose to hide within his world of fiction and lies. The court in Brandenburg nevertheless stressed that every SS member who participated in the death machinery of the concentration camps had made themselves guilty, and that this also applied to Joseph Schütz, despite his denial of a reality that had been described in meticulous detail.

The survivors are profoundly grateful to the court for its stance and for realistically describing the murderous conditions in the German concentration camps."

Additional IAC reports on Josef Schütz:

28.06.2022: Accessory to murder of thousands. SS guard from Sachsenhausen sentenced to five years in jail.

23.05.2022 Plea in the criminal proceedings against concentration camp guard Josef Schütz, who is charged with aiding and abetting the murder of 3,518 prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

16.02.2021: Statement on the two new trials in Germany of two Nazi perpetrators

08.02.2021: The prosecution of SS perpetrators should continue despite old age