Still photograph of child survivors at Auschwitz from the Soviet Film of the liberation of Auschwitz. Alexander Voronzow/USHMM
Three men have been detained by German authorities on suspicion of being guards at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War, where more than 1.1 million people were murdered.
The three men, aged 88, 92, and 94, were arrested during raids on a number of homes across Germany, after prosecutors investigating Nazi war crimes recommended issuing charges against 30 people.
The three men, from the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in south-western Germany, have been sent to Hohenasperg prison hospital in Ludwigsburg according to the BBC.
These arrests come nearly three years after the conviction of Sobibor death camp worker John Demjanjuk in 2011, who was found guilty of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in jail. Demjanjuk died a year later aged 91.
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Yawn.
Get over it.
Good, better late than never. No-one should ‘get over’ (and off from) mass genocide.. ever.
what good is it going to do now? They were doing the job they were commanded to do 70 years ago, when they did not know any better!