A former Auschwitz guard being tried on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder has testified that it was clear to him Jews were not expected to leave the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland alive.
“I couldn’t imagine that” happening, former SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told the Lueneburg state court on Thursday during the third day of his trial, the dpa news agency reported.
The 93-year-old’s answer came in response to a question from attorneys representing Auschwitz survivors who have joined the trial as co-plaintiffs, as allowed under German law.
Pleas are not entered in the German system. On the first day of his trial Tuesday, Groening acknowledged sharing in “moral guilt” but said the court will have to determine if he is legally guilty.
(AP)
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Well guess what you Nazi piece of garbage. My father was in Auschwitz twice. The Nazis sent him to Wittemberg cause they couldn’t kill him. In Wittemberg Hashem protected him again and they sent him back to Auschwitz, where the Nazis couldn’t believe he had survived. They then sent him to Buchenwald where again Hashem watched over him and bh he lived. WE WON!!!!!!!
He’s morally guilty for keeping his mouth shut all these years but certainly guilty as an accessory to the brutal murder of well over 1/4 million innocent people. He ought be gassed in Auschwitz!