A 94-year-old former SS guard went on trial Thursday for complicity in the murders of 170,000 people at Auschwitz, with the hearing opening with a survivor’s harrowing testimony. More than seven ...

German prosecutors on Friday sought six years’ imprisonment for a 94-year-old former SS guard on trial for complicity in 170,000 murders at Auschwitz. Reinhold Hanning stands accused of having watched ...

DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) - A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany apologised in court to victims on Friday, telling them he regretted being part of a "criminal organisation" that ...

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BERLIN — German police on Thursday raided the homes of nine elderly men suspected of serving as SS guards at the Auschwitz death camp and arrested three of them on allegations of accessory to murder.

She added: “SS guards at Auschwitz were routinely injured by prisoners and in construction and engineering accidents, so when you line up the eyewitness testimony with what we know about how that part ...