Tuesday 3 September 2013

Germany pursues Auschwitz guards

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com


Approach to Auschwitz camp site - file picAuschwitz was the biggest Nazi death camp


German justice officials have said 30 former Auschwitz death camp guards should face prosecution.


The Baden-Wuerttemberg state justice ministry, heading the investigation, said 50 guards had been investigated, of whom 30 should be prosecuted.


The BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin says it is not yet clear where the 30 are living - they may be dispersed across the world.


The former Nazis must also be in their late 80s at the very least.


Auschwitz, in southern Poland, was the biggest Nazi death camp in World War II. More than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered there.


The case of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk two years ago changed the legal situation concerning people who worked at the death camps.


A judge ruled that even though there was no clear evidence that he himself murdered directly, his mere activities as a worker at the death camp facilitated mass murder.





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