Germany charged a 93-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen-SS yesterday with at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder over his time at the Auschwitz death camp.
The charges relate to the around 425,000 people believed to have been deported to the camp in occupied Poland between May and July 1944, at least 300,000 of whom were killed in the gas chamber. The German Nazis under Adolf Hitler unleashed a mass genocide against Jews, Romans and other so-called inferior races that they referred to as ‘untermenschen’ or sub humans, during the second world war.
