DETMOLD, Germany — An 88-year-old Auschwitz survivor who traveled
from his home in California to Germany was denied the opportunity to
testify at a former Nazi SS guard's trial Friday.
Joshua Kaufman, who lives in Los Angeles, had
hoped to win permission to tell the court about how he removed bodies
from gas chambers at the World War II death camp after victims had been
killed with Zyklon B.
Reinhold Hanning, 94, is on trial accused of being accessory to the
murder of at least 170,000 people. Although Hanning was not directly
involved in any killings at Auschwitz, prosecutors accuse him of facilitating the slaughter in his capacity as a guard at the camp.
Around 1.2 million people — most of them Jews — were killed at the site, which is located in Poland.
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