A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served in Auschwitz has testified that he helped the death camp function in his role sorting cash and valuables seized from Jews after they arrived in cattle-cars.

A former SS sergeant has described in chilling detail how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of their belongings, and then most led directly into gas chambers.

A 93-year-old man charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp will go on trial early next year, a German court has decided.