Auschwitz SS officer ‘sorry’

A former SS officer known as the ‘Book-keeper of Auschwitz’ said he was “very sorry” for his time stationed at the Nazi death camp, ahead of a verdict in Germany expected today

“No one should have taken part in Auschwitz”, Oskar Groening, 94, told a court in the northern city of Lueneburg yesterday.

“I know that. I sincerely regret not having lived up to this realisation earlier and more consistently. I am very sorry.”