Nazi grandfathers to court

detmold - Some seventy years could freely walk around Auschwitz ruthless guards. But shortly before the Nazi grandfather's death, the German justice still in action. Yesterday again was a former SS to the gate.

Reinhold Hanning is 94 years and is suspected of complicity in the industrial mass murder of 170 000 prisoners. Who came into the war years 1943 and 1944 in Auschwitz, had to forcibly undress on the platform- supposedly to shower- and were brutally murdered in the gas chambers.

Before the start of the process created uproar in the West German Detmold as a notorious Nazi-grandmother, 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck, in front of the court with much shouting denied the Holocaust. That is a criminal offense in Germany. Haverbeck was until recently due volksophitsing in prison.

There were 38 co-plaintiffs, including relatives and even some survivors came to Detmold to see Hanning in the courtroom. He was, according to the prosecutor guard at the death camp, but also partly responsible for executions and the transport of the mainly Hungarian Jews and other prisoners arrived.

Henning gave to have been in the process to Auschwitz. However, he denies there have slain men. But according to the current German law and the prosecution is only proof of the presence and SS in an extermination camp enough for a conviction because the accused than a necessary part of the machinery was murder. '

A few years ago, condemned the Ukrainian John Demjanjuk, a former guard at the Sobibor extermination camp, in Munich. Oskar Gröning waited in Luneburg same fate because of his work as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz. The coming weeks will still launch some of the last war processes.