Oskar Gröning
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04/21/2015
German former SS-Unterscharführer who was stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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His responsibilities allegedly included counting and sorting the money stolen from exterminated prisoners, and guarding other prisoner belongings in the camp before they were plundered. -
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His responsibilities allegedly included counting and sorting the money stolen from exterminated prisoners, and guarding other prisoner belongings in the camp before they were plundered. -
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After being transferred from Auschwitz to an active unit in 1944, Gröning was captured by the British on 10 June 1945 when his unit surrendered. -
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After being temporarily held in a former concentration camp he was transferred to England in 1946, working as a forced labourer. -
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He returned to Germany to lead a normal life. -
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However, he decided to make it public after learning about Holocaust denial, and has since openly criticised those who deny the events that he witnessed, and the ideology to which he once subscribed. -
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On 16 December 2014, Hannover state prosecutors ruled that Gröning, aged 93, was fit to stand trial. -
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His trial opened in 2015, on April 20, two months after the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp – and coincidentally on Hitler's birthday. -
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