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'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' guilty of accessory to 300,000 murders

94-year-old Oskar Groening, the so-called 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', has been found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people.

A German court has sentenced him to four years in prison.

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'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' found guilty in Germany

Oskar Groening in court this month Credit: Philipp Schulze / DPA

Oskar Groening, the so-called "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz" has been found guilty of being accessory to murder of 300,000 people.

A German court has sentenced the 94-year-old to four years in prison.

Groening did not kill anyone himself while working at the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, but prosecutors argued that by sorting the bank notes from trainloads of arriving Jews he helped support the regime responsible for mass murder.

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