94-year-old Auschwitz staff member sentenced to four years

A former SS officer - nicknamed the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' - has been convicted of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to four years prison.

94-year-old Auschwitz staff member sentenced to four years

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp has been convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.

The state court in the northern German city of Lueneburg gave Oskar Groening a four-year sentence.

Groening testified that he guarded prisoners’ baggage after they arrived at Auschwitz and collected money stolen from them.

Prosecutors said that amounted to helping the death camp function.

The charges against Groening related to a period between May and July 1944 when hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Most were immediately gassed to death.

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