German prosecutors have sought a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland, saying his role there made him an accessory to murder.

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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.

If anyone is tempted to follow Jean-Marie Le Pen’s recent attempt to minimise the awful reality of the Holocaust, by accepting his hateful claim “that the Nazi gas chambers were a [mere] detail of history”, perhaps they should listen to the chilling testimony of Oskar Groening, the Auschwitz official now on trial for complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jewish men, women and children.

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 former Auschwitz guard acknowledged he bears a share of the moral guilt for atrocities at the camp, but told judges at the opening of his trial that it is up to them to decide whether he deserves to be convicted as an accessory to murder.

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.