in this place the luftwaffe or s.s. panzer officer on leave relaxes, eats well, breathes deeply, finds romance. everything is charming and picturesque. but the concentration camp had become an integral part of the german economic system, so it was here, too. they were able to see the mountains, but what use are mountains without food? prisoners at dachau and buchenwald dreaded being sent here. to them, this place did not mean recuperation, only starvation, tuberculosis through slavery in an underground factory, and finally left to cough one's life out unaided and crowded in the filth and stench of a hut, unfit for dogs, but for some reason called a hospital. the daily collection of corpses was disposed of through this chimney. mauthausen. first used in 1938, this camp was the center of a group of subsidiary camps. 40,000 people had died here since the beginning of the year. here the gas chamber held 200 at a time and the crematorium dealt with 300 per day-- every day. ludwigslust. in the north of germany, it was the sam

of the just over 6,000 s.s.mbers who were alive at the end of the war the number who have been prosecuted and convicted, scott, is fewer than 50. >> pelley: mark phillips reporting for us tonight. mark, thank you very much. we have news of a new test that could make genetic cancer screening available to many more women. and a little girl gets her best friend back. when the "cbs evening news" continues. you know, just because your bladder is changing it doesn't mean that you have to. with tena, let yourself go. ♪ ♪ be the one with the crazy laugh. ♪ ♪ and keep being their favorite playmate. ♪ ♪ with tena's unique super-absorbent micro-beads that lock in moisture and odor... tena - lets you be you. why am i so awake? did you know your brain has a wake system... and a sleep system? science suggests when you have insomnia, the neurotransmitters in your wake system may be too strong, which may be preventing you from getting the sleep you need. talk to your doctor about ways to manage your insomnia. caring for someone

one of the jewish children who survived being experimented on by s.s. doctors at auschwitz was in court to hear oscar. eva parents and elder sisters died at auschwitz. eva spoke about what seeing him on trial meant for her. >> he has a lot of difficulty physically, and i am sure emotionally, and mentally. to remember -- so i think that in one respect maybe functioning at that level, he is doing his very best a very long day. >> in previous interviews ten years ago oscar chose to speak about his time at auschwitz as he put it then, to oppose things who denied the exterminations ever happened there. >> but now his trial has heard he accepts his own moral guilty. dominic cane, al jazeera berlin. >> and that is it for me in the news hour team, you will have misty and company in just a minute, more on the decision to end the bombing campaign of yemen. >> p soddy led coalition has now launch add new operation. this one called renewal of hope. you are watching al jazeera live. also coming up. >> 20 years in prison. the manage known as the account at that parti

in his autobiography peeling the onion, he revealed his membership of the s.s. as a 16-year-old in the last months of the war something he never admitted before. it brought condemnation for the writer who had urged his country man to confront their past. it tarnished the memory of his career. al jazeera. >> make sure you stay with us. we have another full bulletin coming up. i'll see you again then. thanks for watching. >> you're watching al jazeera. life from doha. >> family of victims killed in

in the war he was in the s.s. assigned to auschwitz.getting her day in court. during the war she was a jewish teenager deported to auschwitz where both her parents were murdered. now in a german court fate has brought oskar groening and hedy bohm together again. he accused of murders. she as a witness to his crime. >> i cried. >> reporter: hedy was more than 400 thousand hungarian jews deported and one of the small percentage of those chosen for work. her parents were not. >> she just looked. she didn't say a word. i saw her turn and walk away. and i was ordered to go through the line. and i never saw her again. >> reporter: oskar groening was not one of those who decided who would die and who might live. his job was to confiscate the victims' valuables. he was death's bookkeeper. a cog in the machine he said those who pushed in the trial say without cogs machines don't run. >> nazi guilt goes deeper than suspected. >> reporter: in the past german justice has been content to charge only those directly involved in the killings. when he a

if you remember the s.s. coal in yemen, in aden was attacked using explosives on boats so they can do that, they can exploit the port for both logistical reasons and also operational reasons. >> thank you very much, fellow with royal united services, thank you for joining us on aljazeera america. >> oral arguments set today in a federal appeal over president obama's executive actions on immigration. three judges in new orleans will consider whether to lift a temporary hold on the plan that would shield millions of immigrants from deportation. a texas judge in february blocked it at the request of 26 states. >> in this morning's digit albeit the power of on line activism to stop an auction. a sale of 450 notes and artifacts from world war ii internment camps was stopped. hundreds of people signed a petition at change.org. they wanted the items pulled because they say they should be educational and not sold for profit. the goal was to hit 10,000 signatures but less than a week after the petition was posted, the

roughout the afternoon we will be climbing into the upper 40's by noon, high today mid to upper 50's.s, but >> i can't believe you are doing this to these cute kids. oh, my goodness. i'll protect you guys. >> like you really didn't know. >> i feel powerful! >> we'll go to the "heat index" and it starts with avril lavigne. she had a revelation that she's been struggling with lyme disease. a five-month battle after being bedridden. sometimes she can't even talk or more and paula faris has her story. ♪ make things so complicated ♪ >> reporter: this morning rock star avril lavigne opening up about recent health complications revealing she's been diagnosed with lyme disease. contracted from a tick bite. levine says she began feeling ill last april. doctors telling her she was likely dehigh dayed and exhausted from touring. but she says she knew it was something more. her symptoms worsening over the months telling "people" magazine i had to fight. i had doctors tell me i was crazy and they didn't want to test me. i had to learn about it completely on my own. >> she's rarely left her home. sh