Published 15:06 IST, November 24th 2018
Ex-Nazi guard prosecuted for 36,000 deaths in a concentration camp
A 95-year old has been charged by the German prosecutors for accessorizing the murder of over 36,000 Jews at the Nazi concentration camp. Towards the end of the World War II, the convicted man, allegedly served as a guard.
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A 95-year old has been charged by German prosecutors for accessorizing murder of over 36,000 Jews at Nazi concentration camp. Towards end of World War II, convicted man, is kwn to have served as a guard.
ex-Nazi identified as Hans H. from Berlin, is being prosecuted for barbarism committed at Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria.
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Berlin prosecutors specified that as a Nazi guard on duty, he was responsible for thousands of prisoner deaths
During his time as a guard, 36,223 Jews died were counted. se atrocious deaths were caused by using various methods --gassing shower rooms, fatal injections, shooting and more. Some of m are also kwn to die by freezing or starvation, prosecutors said.
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accusations are based on fact that Hans H. was aware of all se methods of murder and ghastly living conditions of in-mates. accused is t charged of specific killing but of facilitating se death, aiding functioning of camps.
Over 200,000 people were held at Mauthausen, half of m died before camps were freed in May 1945 by United States troops.
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While horrors of Nazi history still breas in memories, here are some or facts of this dreful period-
1. Sometimes, prisoners were forced to kill or prisoners. Jewish young males in good health also h jobs to le new prisoners to gas chambers and remove corpses after.
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2. Nazis turned ir soldiers into drug dicts, and distributed Meth to yeild longer working hours. results were kwn after testing it on students
3. Nazis were fond of collecting skeletons of Jewish people from Holocaust.
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4. Rudolph Hess in his memoirs elaborated on process to trick Jews into entering gas chambers. y were ordered to undress to be washed. While children often cried, y Nazi 'Special Detachment Team'comforted m by froing m, as y often entered chambers carrying ir toys.
Around 11 million people were killed during Holocaust out of which 1.1 million were children and 6 million of those victims were Jewish. Or groups targeted by Nazis were Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, disabled people, and Roma.
14:31 IST, November 24th 2018