A former Nazi death camp officer dubbed the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” is on trial in Germany, with almost 70 Holocaust survivors and victims’ relatives at the court.
Oskar Groening, 93, is being tried on 300,000 counts of “accessory to murder” for deported Hungarian Jews who were sent to the gas chambers, and faces up to 15 years in jail.
Given the advanced age of most German war crimes suspects, Groening is expected to be among the last to face justice, 70 years after the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II.
Former Nazi death camp officer Oskar Groening (center) and his lawyers Hans Holtermann (right) and Susanne Frangenberg (left) at the opening of Groening’s trial in Lueneburg, Germany, on April 21, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/Ronny Hartmann, Pool)
Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Hungarian Auschwitz survivor, tells news channel NTV that “one has always had the feeling that justice has not been served, and so this provides a sense of satisfaction, to some extent.”
— AFP
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