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Auschwitz guard’s testimony enters 2nd day

Former SS guard Oskar Groening is surround by media as he arrives at the back entrance of the court hall prior to a trail against him in Lueneburg, northern Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Groening, 93, is accused of helping to operate the death camp Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland between May and June 1944, when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought there and at least 300,000 were almost immediately gassed to death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) Former SS guard Oskar Groening is surround by media as he arrives at the back entrance of the court hall prior to a trail against him in Lueneburg, northern Germany, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Groening, 93, is accused of helping to operate the death camp Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland between May and June 1944, when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought there and at least 300,000 were almost immediately gassed to death. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

By Associated Press April 22, 2015 1 min read

LUENEBURG, Germany (AP) – A former Auschwitz guard is taking the stand for a second day Wednesday to answer judges’ questions about his role at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told the court in Lueneburg on Tuesday that he helped keep watch as thousands of Jews were led from cattle cars directly to the gas chambers, and that he shared “moral guilt” for what happened to them.

The 93-year-old, who is charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, said he witnessed individual atrocities but did not acknowledge participating in any crimes.

Eva Kor, a survivor of the death camp, is scheduled to testify after Groening. Some 60 survivors and relatives from the U.S., Canada, Israel and elsewhere have joined the trial as co-plaintiffs, as allowed under German law.