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'Accountant of Auschwitz' Holocaust trial begins in Germany

2015-04-21 75 Dailymotion

A former Auschwitz concentration camp guard has admitted to being “morally guilty” but says he committed no crime.<br /><br /> Oskar Groening, 93, is before a German court near Hamburg on Tuesday (April 21) accused of 300-thousand counts of accessory to murder.<br /><br /> The so-called accountant of Auschwitz admitted to being “morally guilty” but says he committed no crime.<br /><br /> The trial may be one of the last big Holocaust trials. Some 70 years after the end of World War II there are very few suspected Nazi criminals still alive.<br /><br /> Prosecutors say that anyone who was an extermination camp guard can be charged as an accessory to murders committed there. That’s even without evidence of involvement in a specific death.

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