Nazi Holocaust

Former SS Auschwitz Guard Apologizes At Trial In Germany

DETMOLD, Germany (AP) — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant admitted in court Friday that he had served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, apologizing to Nazi Holocaust survivors looking on in a German courtroom that even though he was aware Jews were being gassed and their corpses burned, he did nothing to try to stop it.

Former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning (C) leaves the court after the start of his trial