Der Spiegel: 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Dies Before Starting Sentence

The man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" who in 2015 became one of the last people to be convicted for crimes in the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews during World War II, has died aged 96, magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday. Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years for his role as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 of the Auschwitz concentration camp's roughly 1 million victims. He was in hospital when he died and had yet to begin his sentence. Spiegel...

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