Reinhold Hanning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Nazi SS guard at Auschwitz
Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1921
Place of Birth: Helpup, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date of Death: 30-May-2017
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Reinhold Hanning
- Reinhold Hanning (28 December 1921 – 30 May 2017) was an SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.Hanning volunteered for the Waffen SS at the age of 18 at the urging of his stepmother.
- During the Holocaust, he was an SS guard from early 1942 until June 1944.
- Nearly one million Jews and tens of thousands of other victims were murdered at the death camp.
- Hanning was one of the SS men who met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in Holocaust trains and escorted them to the gas chambers.In 2016, Hanning was convicted in a Detmold court as an accessory to 170,000 murders, following a trial in which Holocaust survivors testified against him.
- He apologized for participation in Holocaust atrocities.
- He died a year later.
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