article_snippet.sent: A former SS sergeant (pictured) described in chilling detail Wednesday how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of the people belongings and then most led directly into gas chambers .
article_snippet.sent: SS Sergeant Oskar Groening - known as 'the bookkeeper of Auschwitz'
article_snippet.sent: Inhuman suffering: A photograph of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops in 1945.
article_snippet.sent: On Wednesday Groening described how so many Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp at once that Groening was put on a 24-hour shift guarding the ramp where they disembarked from the trains.
article_snippet.sent: Groening told in chilling detail how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of the people belongings and then most led directly into gas chambers.
article_snippet.sent: Groenings charge is related to a period between May and July 1944 when around 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Nazi-occupied Poland and most immediately gassed to death.
article_snippet.sent: During a period between May and July 1944 when around 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Nazi-occupied Poland and most immediately gassed to death, so many trains were arriving that often two would have to wait with closed doors as the first was 'processed,' Groening testified at the Lueneburg state court.
article_snippet.sent: Though he was more regularly assigned to the camp's Auschwitz I section, he said he guarded the Birkenau ramp three times, including one busy 24-hour shift.
article_snippet.sent: Auschwitz survivors describe Auschwitz survivors arrival as chaotic, with Nazi guards yelling orders, dogs barking and families being ripped apart.
article_snippet.sent: The process was the same as Auschwitz I.
article_snippet.sent: Between May 16 and July 11, 1944, Groening was on duty when 450,000 Hungarian Jews were transported there, with 300,000 being gassed just after arrival.
article_snippet.sent: Pictured, Auschwitz survivors .
article_snippet.sent: Auschwitz survivor and plaintiff Eva Pusztai-Fahidi
article_snippet.sent: Oskar Groening sits opposite Auschwitz survivors Hedy Bohm (left) and Eva Pusztai-Fahidi
article_snippet.sent: Oskar Groening guarded prisoners' baggage on the ramps, but Oskar Groening main task was to collect and tally money stolen from the new arrivals and then send his main task to Berlin - a job for which the German press has dubbed Oskar Groening the 'Accountant of Auschwitz.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The former SS officer described how Jews were marched to gas chambers .
  