Trial against 93-year-old Auschwitz guard

In the western German city of Detmold must Thursday a 93-year occur because of his past during the Holocaust.

According to prosecutors Hanning ditch eighteen years voluntarily in the SS and fought at the beginning of the Second World War in Eastern Europe. If twenty he started as a camp guard at Auschwitz in 1942. Apart from Germany, Hanning also sued by Hungary, Israel, Canada, Britain and the United States.

He has admitted to working as a camp guard, but denied involvement in the mass killings. According to investigators, he had certainly at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 1.1 million people were killed. About 90 percent of the victims were gassed.

The trial of the SS veteran is the first of a total of four similar lawsuits. The coming months are also two other men and a woman, also in the nineties tried for their war record. Because of their ages as it is possible last chance given to punish them yet.