By Eliza Gray/Detmold
More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust
On a cold, gray morning in February, Irene Weiss was waiting patiently in the courtroom in Detmold, a small city in northern Germany. She had come a long way from her home in Virginia to testify in the trial of Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS guard. The trial was off to a late start because Hanning, 94, was waiting for a wheelchair to take him into court. Because of Hanning’s health and age, the …read more
Source: Time
