It’s been more than 70 years since he was an SS guard at Auschwitz, but Reinhold Hanning, now 94, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for his role in the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.Around 1.1 million Jews and other ethnic and political minorities were killed in Auschwitz. A court in Detmold, a city in western Germany, found Hanning guilty of being an accessory in the murders of 170,000 people at the notorious camp.While reading the verdict, presiding judge Anke Grudda told Henning he was a cog in a “perfectly functioning machinery of …read more
Source: The Atlantic
