Former SS Auschwitz Guard to Testify at His Trial in Germany

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

DETMOLD, Germany — Apr 29, 2016, 3:13 AM ET

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant plans to make his first statement to a German court since his trial opened in February on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations he served as a guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp.

Auschwitz survivors who have testified at the Detmold state court trial have implored defendant Reinhold Hanning to tell his story, and his attorney said he would make a statement Friday.

According to the indictment, Hanning admitted to investigators he served as an Auschwitz guard from January 1942 to June 1944, but maintained he didn't serve in the areas where mass executions took place, and wasn't personally involved.

Prosecutors argue that as a guard, he helped the death camp function so he can be found guilty of accessory to murder.


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[Gman]

1. I've often thought if we prosecuted the Bush admin as aggressively

As this, how much better of a world this would be.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. But we have to look forward not backward,

unless we are supposed to vote to perpetuate the Clinton/Bush dynasty, then we must look to the past instead of the future.

[Eugene]

3. Auschwitz trial: Ex-guard Reinhold Hanning 'ashamed'

Source: BBC

Auschwitz trial: Ex-guard Reinhold Hanning 'ashamed'

29 April 2016 Europe

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has apologised to Nazi victims in a court in western Germany, saying he feels "ashamed" of his work at a "criminal organisation".

Reinhold Hanning is accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the camp. He was an SS guard there from 1942 to 1944.

He has said he knew what was going on at the camp but did not act to stop it.

But he denies involvement in murder. His trial in Detmold began in February.

The Nazis killed about 1.1m people at Auschwitz in occupied southern Poland, most of them Jews.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36168688