(Guardian-UK) An Auschwitz survivor Thursday brought the German parliament to its feet when he described the spontaneous uprising of Auschwitz prisoners in response to mass gassings of Jews. "The prisoners attacked the SS with axes and rocks and set one crematorium on fire," said Arno Lustiger, a Jew and Holocaust historian. "The SS mobilized, rounded everyone up in groups, and killed them all with shots to the neck."
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