Former SS officer Oskar Groening, dubbed the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, asked for “forgiveness” over his role in mass murder at the Nazi death camp, as his German trial began Tuesday.”For me there’s no question that I share moral guilt,” the 93-year-old former Nazi told the judges, admitting that he knew about the gassing of Jews and other prisoners. “I ask for forgiveness,” he said at the trial, which was attended by almost 70 Holocaust survivors and victims’ relatives.”You have to decide on my legal culpability,” Groening told the court in the northern city of Lueneburg near Hamburg.Given the advanced age …read more
Source: AsiaOne
