Wednesday, June 18, 2014

U.S. Arrests Philadelphia Man Accused Of Being SS Guard At Nazi Death Camp

An 89-year-old man was arrested on a German warrant charging him with aiding and abetting the killing of 216,000 Jews while he was a guard at Auschwitz.


Johann "Hans" Breyer was arrested by U.S. authorities Tuesday night on a German arrest warrant for his work as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II.


Johann "Hans" Breyer was arrested by U.S. authorities Tuesday night on a German arrest warrant for his work as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II.


At least 1.1 million Jews and 200,000 other prisoners were deported to Auschwitz between 1941 and 1944. At least 960,000 Jews and more than 100,000 other victims were killed there, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.


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Breyer was arrested based on a warrant issued by a German district court Tuesday, charging him with 158 counts of complicity in the commission of murder.


Breyer was arrested based on a warrant issued by a German district court Tuesday, charging him with 158 counts of complicity in the commission of murder.


Each count represents a trainload of people taken between May 1944 and October 1944 from Hungary, Germany and Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were killed.


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Breyer admits he was a guard at Auschwitz, but says he was stationed outside of the camp.


Breyer admits he was a guard at Auschwitz, but says he was stationed outside of the camp.


"I didn't kill anybody, I didn't rape anybody — and I don't even have a traffic ticket here," he told the AP in 2012. "I didn't do anything wrong."


Kacper Pempel / Reuters


The 89-year-old says he was aware of what was going on inside the death camp, but never witnessed it.


The 89-year-old says he was aware of what was going on inside the death camp, but never witnessed it.


"We could only see the outside, the gates,"Breyer said.


Kacper Pempel / Reuters




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