Former camp guard sorry and ashamed

detmold - Reinhold Hanning, a former camp guard at Auschwitz, on Friday for the court in Detmold expressed regret about his past.,, I am ashamed that I have seen it wrong and I do not have to protest, '' said the 94-year-old according to German media in a statement.,, I am truly sorry. ''

The former SS man stands in Detmold trial on charges of complicity in murder of 170 000 people. The Public Prosecutor accuses him to have been part of the extermination machinery of the Nazis. Twelve days previous session he had just kept quiet. His apology he read Friday sitting in a wheelchair in front of a sheet of paper.

In a statement read by his lawyer Hanning admitted to have known of the massacres. He said he had repressed memories of his time as a camp guard until his trial.