A German makeshift court is expected to pronounce its judgement in the trial of the former Auschwitz SS guard, who’s been alleged of having a role to play, in the murder of at least 170,000 people, back at the times of Second world war.
By looking at him, it’s difficult to believe that a frail 94-year-old man, Reinhold Hanning, to be all proud and vain in his Nazi uniform, guarding prisoners in one of the huge concentration camps. However, the scene changes as one after the other, the survivors address him directly on their woes and their nightmares.
Hanning has apologized for his actions and also for working with ‘criminal Nazis’, but has no answers to the losses the people have suffered and the casualties that have occurred. He denies the charges against him, though, upto some extent.
More than 1.1 million people had been killed ruthlessly at Auschwitz, most of them being Jews.
In the past few years, the hanging of two other death camp guards who had been convicted of helping to facilitate genocide has caused quite a stir in the public. It could be said that the public prosecutors are actually ‘racing against time’ to bring others to the courtroom and award judgement.
With inputs from BBC
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