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Nazi guard from Auschwitz dies just before trial
Source: Reuters
Nazi guard from Auschwitz dies just before trial
Reuters in Berlin
Thursday 7 April 2016 16.41 BST
A former Auschwitz guard has died only days before going on trial in Germany, accused of being an accessory to the murder of more than 1,000 people, a court spokesman said on Thursday.
Ernst Tremmel was a member of the Nazi SS guard team at the death camp in occupied Poland from November 1942 to June 1943. His trial was scheduled to begin on 13 April.
A court spokesman in the western town of Hanau, near Frankfurt, said all trial dates had been cancelled after police confirmed the death of the 93-year old. The cause of Tremmel’s death was not made known.
Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to the Holocaust, in which more than 6 million people, mostly Jews, were killed by the Nazis.
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Reuters in Berlin
Thursday 7 April 2016 16.41 BST
A former Auschwitz guard has died only days before going on trial in Germany, accused of being an accessory to the murder of more than 1,000 people, a court spokesman said on Thursday.
Ernst Tremmel was a member of the Nazi SS guard team at the death camp in occupied Poland from November 1942 to June 1943. His trial was scheduled to begin on 13 April.
A court spokesman in the western town of Hanau, near Frankfurt, said all trial dates had been cancelled after police confirmed the death of the 93-year old. The cause of Tremmel’s death was not made known.
Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to the Holocaust, in which more than 6 million people, mostly Jews, were killed by the Nazis.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/07/nazi-guard-from-auschwitz-dies-just-before-trial
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