Gröning, Oskar, 1921-2018
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- Gröning, Oskar, 1921-
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1921-06-10
Death Date
- 2018
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Birth Place
- Nienburg (Lower Saxony, Germany)
Occupation
(lcsh) Concentration camps--Officials and employees
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Earlier Established Forms
- Gröning, Oskar, 1921-
Sources
- found: Die 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)
- found: 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)
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Change Notes
- 2016-02-01: new
- 2018-06-29: revised
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