Charged with aiding and abetting in the murder of three hundred thousand Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz between 16 May 1944 and 11 July 1944, Oskar Gröning, the ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, was sentenced in 2015 by the Lüneburg Regional Court to four years’ imprisonment. After a series of unsuccessful appeals, Gröning died in 2018, at the age of 96, having never spent a day in jail. This contribution unpacks the charges against Gröning and his resultant conviction; examines the ...
