‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ Describes Camp in Chilling Detail

In the second day of his trial in Germany, a former Auschwitz guard detailed Wednesday how cattle cars full of Jews arrived at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, how they were stripped of their belongings, and how most were then gassed to death. Oskar Groening is charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, related to the 300,000 Jews killed at Auschwitz in May and June 1994 after some 425,000 Jews were transported to the camp from Hungary. The now 93-year-old former Nazi...

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