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\f0\fs24 \cf0 Oskar Groening: "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz"\
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Oskar Groening, a former SS guard who worked at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has been convicted by a German court of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jewish people in 1944.\
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1921: Born in Nienburg, Lower Saxony, Germany\
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1930s: Joins Stahlhelm youth organisation, then Hitler Youth when Nazis come to power in 1933\
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1941: Volunteers for Waffen - SS -- Nazi party's military wing\
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Baltic Sea\
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POLAND\
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Warsaw\
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Auschwitz (Oswiecim)\
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200km 125 miles\
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1942-44: Serves as guard at Auschwitz.  Responsible for collecting belongings of trainloads of arriving Jews and sending any money found to Berlin to fund Nazi war effort\
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1944-45: Wounded during fighting in Ardennes offensive.  Taken prisoner after his unit surrenders to British\
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Children at Auschwitz, 1945\
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Charges against Groening relate to period from May - July 1944, when at least 300,000 Hungarian jews were sent to Auschwitz gas chambers\
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1948: Returns to Germany after war, works as wage accountant in glass - making factory\
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1980s: Speaks out publicly against Holocaust denial.  Admits witnessing mass killings but denies any direct role.  Charges brought against him dropped due to lack of evidence\
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2014: Arrested during hunt for Nazi camp guards following successful war crimes trial of John Demjanjuk.  Charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.\
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July 15, 2015: Found guilty by German court in Lueneburg following three - month trial.  Sentenced to four years in prison\
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Source: Wire agencies\
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Pictures: Associated Press\
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