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  • Oskar Groening, the ‘accountant of Auschwitz,’ said in a 2005 BBC interview, ‘I see it as my task now, at my age, to face up to these things that I experienced, and to oppose the Holocaust deniers who claim that Auschwitz never happened. I saw the crematoria, I saw the burning pits.’ German prosecutors declined to press charges against him. Ten years later, Groening was tried and finally convicted on 300,000 accessory-to-murder counts. He was given four years in prison and died before the sentence began, age 96. Above, Groening waits at court for the opening of his trial on April 21, 2015, in Lueneburg, northern Germany.
    Oskar Groening, the ‘accountant of Auschwitz,’ said in a 2005 BBC interview, ‘I see it as my task now, at my age, to face up to these things that I experienced, and to oppose the Holocaust deniers who claim that Auschwitz never happened. I saw the crematoria, I saw the burning pits.’ German prosecutors declined to press charges against him. Ten years later, Groening was tried and finally convicted on 300,000 accessory-to-murder counts. He was given four years in prison and died before the sentence began, age 96. Above, Groening waits at court for the opening of his trial on April 21, 2015, in Lueneburg, northern Germany.
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    Germany’s Culture of Acquittal

    The country’s public dedication to Holocaust remembrance has masked a startling disregard for justice

    byZachary Simon
  • Oskar Groening (C) at his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015.
    Oskar Groening (C) at his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015.
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    German Court Upholds Conviction of 95-Year-Old Former Nazi Guard

    Charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, Oskar Groening unsuccessfully appealed a four-year prison sentence

    byJonathan Zalman
  • Convicted former SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015.
    Convicted former SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015.
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    Former Nazi Oskar Groening, 94, Convicted of Accessory to Murder

    A German court sentenced to the former SS guard—a bookkeeper at Auschwitz—to four years in prison

    byJonathan Zalman
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    At Trial of Former Nazi, a Tough Embrace

    Eva Kor, who survived Mengele’s experiments, forgives Oskar Groening, the ‘Accountant of Auschwitz’

    byJonathan Zalman
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    Trial of 93-Year-Old Former Nazi Guard Begins in Germany

    Oskar Groening, a member of the SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau, is charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

    byJonathan Zalman
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    Female Nazi Guard, Now 93, Under Investigation

    German prosecutors examining role in 1945 Gross-Rosen death march

    byGabriela Geselowitz
  • Entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Auschwitz Guard to Stand Trial in Germany

    Oskar Groening, 93, charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

    byZachary Schrieber
  • Entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Nazi Guard Charged With 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

    Oskar Groening, 93, to face trial in Germany for role at Auschwitz

    byAlexander Aciman
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