The ghetto had been sealed on 15 July 1942. Now, less than 2 weeks later, the SS wanted to transport the Jews to their deaths. At the German Army headquarters in Przemysl, Lieutenant Albert Battel ...
At school, he was taught Nazi doctrine. At ten years old, he joined the Hitler Youth, and later the SS. His story features in a new documentary, filmed over 10 years, about the last living ...
In 2015, 94-year-old former German SS officer Oskar Gröning went on trial in his home country, charged with complicity in the murder of three hundred thousand Jews at Auschwitz in 1944.