Former SS guard who "promoted mass murder" of 170,000 inmates at Auschwitz jailed
Former SS guard has been sentenced to five years’ jail after he was found guilty of helping murder at least 170,000 inmates at Auschwitz.
Reinhold Hanning, 94, had claimed he never personally harmed anyone at the Nazi camp where at least 1.1 million died.
But rotas showed he was on duty at the rail terminus when 170,000 prisoners, mainly Jews, were selected for gassing between 1942 and 1944.
Sentencing him in Detmold, Germany, judge Anke Grudda said: “You were almost two and a half years in Auschwitz and therefore promoted the mass murder.”


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