Over seven decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, the trial of a man of 93 has begun in Germany. the man who was an Auschwitz guard has being charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000, mostly Hungarian Jews, spanning a period of two months in the summer of the year 1944.
The man, Oskar Gröning, despite being aged read a terrifyingly clear account of the events that happened all those years ago particularly the autumns of 1942 and 1944 while Holocaust survivors looked on in the stark courtroom.
After an hour, Oskar who lives in a small nortg german town turned to the judge and said; “It is beyond question that I am morally complicit. This moral guilt I acknowledge here, before the victims, with regret and humility.”
“As concerns guilt before the law,” he told Judge Franz Kompisch, “you must decide.”
