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Compiled on August 28, 2014, 02:43 PM CET |
THE AUSCHWITZ FILES Why the Last SS Guards Will Go Unpunished In February, German prosecutors conducted a wave of raids targeting former SS concentration camp guards. It was hoped the proceedings could help make up for decades of inaction. Instead, they will likely mark the latest chapter in the German judiciary's shameful approach to the Holocaust. |
INTERVIEW WITH AN AUSCHWITZ GUARD 'I Do Not Feel Like a Criminal' As a young man, Jakob W. worked in the watchtowers of Auschwitz. Charges against him were recently dropped, but he described to SPIEGEL what it was like to be a cog in the Nazis' horrific machinery of death. |