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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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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
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