BERLIN: German Holocaust survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, a key witness in recent trials of alleged Nazi war criminals, has died at the age of 101, the International Auschwitz Commission (IAC) told AFP on Monday. Schwarzbaum died Sunday night, according to Christoph Heubner, executive vice president of the IAC. “His death represents a great loss for the collective memory. We will miss his anger and his humanity,” Heubner said. Schwarzbaum testified in 2016 against former Auschwitz camp guard Reinhold Hanning, who was sentenced to five years in prison but died a few months after the verdict before he could go to prison....
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