(Deutsche Welle-Germany) Three men suspected of having served as SS guards in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz were arrested in Germany on Wednesday following a federal push to investigate Nazi crimes. An estimated 900,000 people - mostly Jews - were killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz in occupied Poland during World War II. German federal authorities announced last year they would pursue charges against 30 suspected former Auschwitz guards after the conviction of John Demjanjuk in 2011. That case established that death camp guards could be convicted as accessories to murder even if there was no evidence that they personally committed atrocities.
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