If ribs visible, you were candidate for crematorium, Auschwitz survivor tells Nazi trial

Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz, arrives with his lawyers Andreas Scharmer (L) and Johannes Salmen in the courtroom for the second day of his trial in Detmold, Germany, February 12, 2016. REUTERS/Bernd Thissen/Pool

DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) - Three survivors spoke on Friday of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of the dead at Nazi Germany's Auschwitz death camp, one of whose former guards stands accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.

"If your ribs were visible, you were a candidate for the crematorium," said Leon Schwarzbaum, a 94-year-old survivor who lost 35 family members during the Holocaust.