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Former Auschwitz guard, 93, faces trial in Germany: court

A 93-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard will go on trial in February, charged with at least 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, a German court said Monday.

The defendant, who has not been named by the court, is accused of complicity in the killings at the camp in occupied Poland between January 1943 and June 1944.

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