Former Auschwitz guard to be put on trial in Germany
A 93-year old man suspected of being a former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will be tried in the new year, a German court said on Monday, according to the 'Reuters' news agency.
Oskar Gröning will go on trial in Lüneburg, near Hamburg, next April on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people. Prosecutors said the man is believed to have worked as an SS guard at the camp in occupied Poland between September 1942 and October 1944, where he was in charge of counting and managing the money seized from those deported to Auschwitz…