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Ex-SS guard ‘ashamed’ but tells court he’s innocent
MsNSTER, Germany, Nov 13, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A former Nazi concentration camp guard Tuesday voiced his shame at having been part of the SS but told a German court he was unaware of the mass murders at the camp.
“I’m of course ashamed to have been part of the SS,” Johann Rehbogen, 94, told the court in Muenster. But he added that he “knew nothing of the systematic killings” nor of the gas chambers and crematoria in use at the Stutthof camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk, in Poland.
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