BERLIN — Oskar Groening, a former Nazi SS guard dubbed the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” who was convicted in 2015 of being an accessory to murder, has died aged 96, German media says Monday.
A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in the northern city of Hanover tells AFP that Groening’s lawyer informed him of Groening’s death, but he was unable to confirm it officially.
Groening worked as an accountant at Auschwitz, sorting and counting the money taken from those killed or used as slave labor, and shipping it back to his Nazi superiors in Berlin.
He was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300,000 people at the camp and sentenced to four years in prison.
A court doctor determined last year that he was able to serve his sentence, on condition he was given appropriate nursing and medical care, but he was never imprisoned.
— AFP
Former SS guard Oskar Groening waits for the start of his trial in a courtroom in Lueneburg, Germany, April 23, 2015. (Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP, File)
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