Reinhold Hanning

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Former SS guard Reinhold Hanning: found guilty of accessory to murder in at least 170,000 cases at the concentration camp Auschwitz. Photograph: Bernd Thissen
Ex-Auschwitz guard (95) dies before conviction is binding

A 95-year-old former Auschwitz guard, who was sentenced to jail in Germany last year for being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people,(...)

Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp, arrives in a courtroom in Detmold, Germany, where he was convicted over his role in the murder of 170,00 people at the death camp. Photograph: Bernd Thissen/Pool/Reuters.
Ex-Nazi guard convicted over link to 170,000 Auschwitz murders

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people, at the end of what is li(...)

Former Auschwitz prisoner Leon Schwarzbaum at the trial of Reinhold Hanning in Detmold, Germany. Photograph: Bernd Thissen/Reuters
Auschwitz survivors tell former SS officer’s trial of killings
  • Europe
  • February 12, 2016, 15:59

Three Holocaust survivors have testified about the horrors they experienced at the Auschwitz death camp, on the second day of the trial of a former SS(...)

Former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning arrives for his trial at the court in Detmold, western Germany. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/AFP/Getty Images
Ex-Nazi guard Reinhold Hanning goes on trial in Germany

A 94-year-old ex-SS man went on trial in western Germany on Thursday, accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Au(...)

Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz arrives to the courtroom for his trial in Detmold, Germany. Mr Hanning began serving as a guard at Auschwitz when he was 22 years old. Photograph: Bernd Thissen/Reuters
Former Nazi guard to go on trial over Auschwitz murders
  • Europe
  • February 11, 2016, 09:49

A former Nazi SS guard is due to go on trial in Germany over the murder of at least 170,000 people in Auschwitz. Reinhold Hanning (94) was 20- years-(...)