A German court says a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served as an Auschwitz guard is appealing his conviction on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder.
The Detmold state court said in a statement Monday that Reinhold Hanning’s attorneys had both filed appeals of the June 17 verdict, as had lawyers representing nine Auschwitz survivors or their families as co-plaintiffs at the trial.
Further details were not immediately announced.
Hanning was found guilty of helping the death camp function in his service as a guard there from 1942 to 1944 and sentenced to five years in prison.
He’ll remain free, however, until the appeals process is complete.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
This guard had little direct and executive power over the prisoners, he was a sergeant! Not an officer!
How can a Court find him guilty? He is 94! hillary is responsible for the death of 4 U S citizens including an Ambassador and nobody charges her with anything! We, as a country kill Millions of babies and nobody jails those murderers nor the nurses for accessory to the murder and everything is all right. What a country!! I’m not proud to be a citizen of the Good Old USA, Served in the USA Air Force and they call me Veteran from Korea.Again, I was a Tech/Sergeant not an officer.
I agree. I have served in the USMC, and I understand the rank system in the military. This man was a low-level peon in the overall scheme of things. And he’s 94. WWII has been over longer than most have been alive. Let’s concentrate on today’s problems. God will be judging Sgt Hanning fairly soon.