A 93-year-old man is going on trial in Germany on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations he helped the functioning of the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland by serving as a guard there.
Oskar Groening is accused of serving at Auschwitz between May and June 1944, when some 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought there and at least 300,000 almost immediately gassed to death.
Prosecutors say among other things he helped collect and tally money as part of his job dealing with the belongings stolen from camp victims, earning him the moniker "Accountant of Auschwitz."
Groening doesn't deny serving as a guard there, but says he committed no crime. He was expected to address the charges as his trial opened Tuesday in Lueneburg, south of Hamburg.
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