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The last SS?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:43 pm
by Webb
How many of these guys can still be alive?

Former Auschwitz Guard Oskar Groening Recounts Chilling Details Of Life In Camp

LUENEBURG, Germany (AP) — A former SS sergeant described in chilling detail Wednesday how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of their belongings and then most led directly into gas chambers.

Oskar Groening is being tried on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, related to a period between May and July 1944 when around 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Nazi-occupied Poland and most immediately gassed to death.

During that period, so many trains were arriving that often two would have to wait with closed doors as the first was "processed," Groening testified at the Lueneburg state court ...


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijr3zcyh5qc[/youtube]

Re: The last SS?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:53 pm
by Hawkeye07
And we refer to ourselves as the most intelligent species on the planet...

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst"
~ Aristotle

Re: The last SS?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:25 am
by expat
A little bit of irony about this case. He has lived in the open since the end of the war and repeatedly told his story about how he was the book keeper for all the items taken. He has never hidden and openly told of his past on many, many occasions and they are only just now prosecuting him..........?

Matt

Re: The last SS?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:05 am
by Hawkeye07
Must be running out of bigger fish to fry.