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Nazi guard known as ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, 96, jailed for four years

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November 29, 2017
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Nazi guard known as 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', 96, jailed for four years
Oskar Groening, now 96, has been jailed (Picture: Getty)

A former Nazi SS guard known as the ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ is fit to serve his four-year prison sentence, a court has ruled.

Oskar Groening, now 96, was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland.

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Groening filed an appeal for the sentence to be suspended.

The court in Celle in northern Germany ruled: ‘Based on expert opinion, the superior regional court finds that the convicted individual is fit to serve out the term despite his advanced age.’

Incarcerating Groening would not violate his fundamental rights, the court said, arguing that ‘appropriate precautionary measures’ could be taken to meet any special needs arising from his old age.

Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, 96, jailed for four years
Arrival of a deportation train bringing Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz death camp in Poland, circa 1942 (Picture: Getty)
Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, 96, jailed for four years
Snow-covered personal effects of those deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland litter the train tracks leading to the camp’s entrance. (Picture: Getty)

Groening has been living at home despite his conviction, and given his age, it has until now been unclear if he would actually be jailed.

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Making the case for his imprisonment, German prosecutors have said that a court doctor has determined that Groening is able to serve his sentence, on condition he is given appropriate nursing and medical care while in detention.

Groening worked as an accountant at Auschwitz, sorting and counting the money taken from those killed or used as slave labour, and shipping it back to his Nazi superiors in Berlin.

More than one million European Jews died between 1940 and 1945 at Auschwitz before it was liberated by Soviet forces.

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