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Gröning, Oskar, 1921-2018

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Personal name headingGröning, Oskar, 1921-2018
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Variant(s)Gröning, Oskar, 1921-
Associated countryGermany
Birth date1921-06-10
Death date2018
Place of birthNienburg (Lower Saxony, Germany)
AffiliationAuschwitz (Concentration camp)
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Profession or occupationConcentration camps--Officials and employees
Found inDie letzten Zeugen, 2015: page 7, etc. (Oskar Gröning; born 10 June 1921 in Nienburg an der Weser; former SS-soldier; from September 1942 to October 1944 was in charge of processing of valuables taken from prisoners in Auschwitz; in 2015 at age 93 tried in a German court as an accessory to murder in 300,000 cases; found guilty and sentenced to four years' imprisonment)
New York times website, May 18, 2018: March 12, 2018, obituaries (Oskar Gröning, an unassuming onetime corporal in Hitler's Waffen SS who became known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, one of the very last Germans to face war crime charges arising from the Holocaust, has died; he was 96)