A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard will go on trial in Germany on Thursday for complicity in the murders of tens of thousands of people at the Nazi concentration camp, AFP reports.
Reinhold Hanning faces court in the western town of Detmold seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis, charged with at least 170,000 counts of being an accessory to murder in his role at the camp in occupied Poland.
The trial is the first of three scheduled this year against former SS men, as Germany races to prosecute ageing Third Reich criminals.