More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS ... guard at Auschwitz. Hanning had been charged with being an accessory to murder in the deaths of 170,000 people killed at ...

those that arrived in Auschwitz faced almost certain death. German SS guards – there were more than 5,000 of them stationed at Auschwitz – selected new arrivals for the gas chambers or camp ...

Other victims included the Roma, Polish political prisoners, homosexuals, communists, Soviet prisoners of war and disabled people. We look back at what happened at Auschwitz, the way different ...

Birkenau was to become the biggest of six Nazi death camps. Three others ... because the country was seen as a land of plenty. SS guards sought to hide their crimes as Soviet troops closed ...