Reuters, 29/04 14:25 CET
By Elke Ahlswede
DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) – A
94-year-old former Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany apologized in
court to victims on Friday, telling them he regretted being part of a
“criminal organization” that had killed so many people and caused such
suffering.
“I’m ashamed that I knowingly let injustice happen and
did nothing to oppose it”, said Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS
officer, seated in a wheelchair in the court in Detmold.
Hanning is charged with being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.
Holocaust survivors, who detailed their horrific
experiences at the trial which opened in February, have pleaded with the
accused to break his silence in what could be one of the last Holocaust
court cases in Germany.
Hanning finally broke the silence he kept over the course of 12 hearings, each limited to two hours due to his old age.
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