Former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning convicted

Image Courtesy of Reuters
Image Courtesy of Reuters

By BBC News, June 17, 2016 

A 94-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp has been sentenced to five years in jail.

Reinhold Hanning was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people.

He was an SS guard at Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944. He has said he knew what was going on at the camp but did not act to stop it.

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