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.
Oskar Groening, 94, the infamous "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", has been found guilty today in Germany of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews.
However, he didn't actually kill anyone. Instead, the case hinged on whether people who were cogs in the Nazi machinery were guilty of crimes. Today, the German justice system decided that he was.
During his time at Auschwitz, Groening's job was to collect the belongings of people arriving at the camp by train.
Groening, who was 21 and by his own admission an enthusiastic Nazi when he started work at the camp in 1942, inspected people's luggage, removing and counting any bank notes that were inside and sending them on to SS offices in Berlin, where they helped to fund the Nazi war effort.
The charges against him related to the period between May and July 1944 when 137 trains carrying roughly 425,000 Jews from Hungary arrived in Auschwitz. At least 300,000 of them were sent straight to the gas chambers, the indictment says.
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