A German-American lawyer who helped prosecutors win recent convictions against a former guard and a bookkeeper at the Auschwitz death camp acknowledged some futility in pursuing cases against men who are in their 90s, but he said the cases were too important to ignore.
“It’s too late, but it’s never too late,” said Christoph Ruckel, who represented 23 Auschwitz survivors in cases that led to a five-year sentence for former guard Reinhold Hanning and a four-year sentence for bookkeeper Oskar Groning. Both men were convicted of accessory to murder in German courts in the past two years. Ruckel explained in an interview after his talk at Ahavath Achim synagogue in Atlanta on Sunday that German law allows private lawyers retained by victims of major crimes to assist prosecutors.
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