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'Former Auschwitz guard' to be tried in Germany

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Nick Hodge 16.12.2014 11:18
A 93-year-old man who allegedly volunteered to be a guard at the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland is to be tried in Luneberg, Lower Saxony.

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The court has declined to reveal the identity of the man, reportedly an SS veteran, but he is being charged as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people.

The defendant allegedly served as a guard at the camp in occupied Poland from September 1942 to October 1944.

He is accused of being in charge of processing money confiscated from captives deported to the camp.

The charges relate to a specific two-month period from May to July 1944.

At that time, close to 140 trains were dispatched to the camp, transporting about 425,000 people, chiefly Hungarian Jews.

It is estimated that over 300,000 were killed shortly after arrival in gas chambers.

"The accused knew that, as part of the selection process, those not chosen for work and told they were going to the showers were really going to the gas chambers where they would be put to death in an agonizing manner," the court declared in a statement in September.

The 93-year-old defendant is believed to be one of the last surviving participants in war crimes at Auschwitz, with the the vast majority of those involved having already died. (nh)

Source: TVN,

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