article_snippet.sent: Now, seven decades on and in the twilight of their lives, these former SS guards who ruled the human slaughterhouse Auschwitz with an iron fist will go to these former SS guards who ruled the human slaughterhouse Auschwitz with an iron fist graves having escaped justice.
article_snippet.sent: And, in a crushing blow to the millions of Jews murdered at Nazi death camps across Europe, their are all deemed too ill or infirm to ever be punished.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the Nazi guards got away with the Nazi guards crimes by claiming their crimes were just following orders .
article_snippet.sent: After the war, in Saxony-Anhalt, which was behind the iron curtain, the communist authorities tried She for She wartime role
article_snippet.sent: Court: SS Sergeant Oskar Groening, known as 'the bookkeeper of Auschwitz', pictured during the war and today.
article_snippet.sent: To many, particularly Jews persecuted ruthlessly by the Nazis, this is all a case of 'too little, too late'.
article_snippet.sent: According to historian Andreas Eichmüller, of the 6,500 members of the SS who served in Auschwitz and survived the war, only 29 were convicted in West Germany and reunified Germany, while about 20 were convicted in reunified Germany.
article_snippet.sent: Efforts were no doubt hampered originally by the judiciary, police and civil service which were, in the post-war years, full of former Nazis.
article_snippet.sent: Getting away with the court: Of the 6,500 members of the SS who served in Auschwitz and survived the warthe SS the war, only 29 were convicted in West Germany and reunified Germany, while about 20 were convicted in East Germany . '
article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately, very few people who committed the crimes had to pay for very few people who committed the crimes,' said Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's top Nazi hunter.
article_snippet.sent: about 20 were convicted in East Germany added: 'The passage of time in no way diminishes the crimes....
article_snippet.sent: Kurt Schrimm, the head of Germany special prosecutor’s office, which is responsible for investigating Nazi era war crimes, who has worked to locate the remaining SS criminals and bringing the remaining SS criminals to justice 1986. '
article_snippet.sent: We owe it to the victims and to the victims families," about 20 were convicted in East Germany said.