He watched his fellow SS men kill children with their bare hands and saw Jews being herded into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has always denied ultimate responsibility for the genocide committed during the Nazi Holocaust, according to the Guardian.
The 93-year-old “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” will go on trial on Tuesday in the German town of Lüneburg, charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Auschwitz prisoners. His case could set a key legal precedent for other Holocaust convictions.
Unlike most war crime suspects, Gröning, now a frail white-haired widower, has declared he is ready …read more
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