GUILTY Germany - Oskar Gröning, 'The Accountant of Auschwitz', goes on trial, age 93

[STANDREID]

Well he'll be staying in a room for the next few years which was what he was basically doing anyway-seems like a big waste of time and money to me. I guess his punishment is no more trips to Walmart on the short bus.

 

[LinasK]

Well he'll be staying in a room for the next few years which was what he was basically doing anyway-seems like a big waste of time and money to me. I guess his punishment is no more trips to Walmart on the short bus.

Holocaust survivors and victims' relatives who were co-plaintiffs welcomed the verdict as a "very late step toward justice".
"SS members such as Gröning who took part in the murder of our families have created lifelong and unbearable suffering for us," they said in a statement.
"Neither the criminal proceedings nor the words of the accused can alleviate this suffering. But it gives us satisfaction that now the perpetrators cannot evade prosecution as long as they live."
While some co-plaintiffs expressed disappointment that Gröning failed to apologise to them, others spoke of a kind of catharsis from the trial.
"We were able to bear witness about the monstrous and unspeakable crime committed against us and our families," the survivors said in their statement.

Some 1.1 million people, most of them European Jews, perished between 1940 and 1945 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp before it was liberated by Soviet forces.http://www.thelocal.de/20150715/auschwitz-bookkeeper-faces-judgement-day

 

[daisymae]

Woman, 91, charged over 'role' in 260,000 Auschwitz deaths.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34317875

 

[daisymae]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4558800.ece

Another guard may be charged.
Reinhold Hanning

 

[STANDREID]

At this stage, I think this is all about making us feel good. These people, if guilty, will get their punishment pretty soon anyway.

 

[daisymae]

The trial of 93-year-old Oskar Gröning (Groening) begins today in Lüneburg, (Lueneberg) Germany. Gröning is known as the 'accountant of Auschwitz' (Buchhalter von Auschwitz) because of his role on the selection ramp of the infamous concentration camp, collecting and counting the cash and valuables of newly-arrived victims. He volunteered for the SS at age 20 and is charged with the deaths of 300,000 people. The charges stem from the period May - July 1944 when 425,000 Hungarian Jews were deported there from their homeland. He worked at the camp from 1942 - 44.

In the past, Gröning has spoken openly about his role because he said he wanted the world to be aware what happened. Since his arrest his attorney has advised him to remain silent and the German legal system allows no plea to be entered before a trial begins. 60 survivors or their relatives from Canada, the US and Israel are co-plaintiffs with the prosecution and will give evidence over the coming weeks. They include Judith Kalmann and Hedy Bohm from Toronto.

This, and the pending prosecution of two other men in their nineties, are a last-ditch attempt to obtain justice before those involved in running concentration and death camps pass away from old age. The prosecutions have become possible by the precedent set in the prosecution of guard John Demjanjuk, who died before he could serve his sentence.





http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ath-camp-guard-oskar-groning-on-trial-germany

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article19071615.html

German language:
http://m.bild.de/news/inland/auschw...verziehen-40625378,variante=L.bildMobile.html

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/w...al-for-oskar-groening-accountant-of-auschwitz

:bump::bump::bump:

 

[daisymae]

I'm looking for an Adam Sandler movie based on the Holocaust, fiction I think but heard it was excellent. I can't find it yet I saw it listed on a list of Holocaust movies about a year ago. Always looking for movies pertaining to Hitler, etc.

 

[daisymae]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rnational-holocaust-remembrance-day/79335156/

BERLIN — Wednesday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date the United Nations has chosen to commemorate victims of the Holocaust during World War II. Six million Jews were murdered by Germany's Nazi regime, along with 5 million non-Jews who were killed.

more at link

 

[MsFacetious]

Auschwitz survivor recalls horrors of the Nazi death camp ahead of 94-year-old former guard's trial

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Hanning's case is one of 30 involving former Auschwitz guards being investigated by federal prosecutors from Germany's special Nazi war crimes office in Ludwigsburg.

One of the two other cases likely to go on trial this year involves a 93-year-old woman charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she served as a radio operator for an Auschwitz commandant in 1944.

Another 94-year-old man is charged with 1,276 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an Auschwitz guard.

Former SS officer Hubert Zafke, 95, is also set to go on trial at the end of February in Neubrandenburg, north of Berlin, on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder on accusations he served as a medic at an SS hospital in Auschwitz in 1944.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-old-former-guard-s-trial.html#ixzz3zni9AiVB

 

[SophieRose]

I'm looking for an Adam Sandler movie based on the Holocaust, fiction I think but heard it was excellent. I can't find it yet I saw it listed on a list of Holocaust movies about a year ago. Always looking for movies pertaining to Hitler, etc.

There's a good 2004 German movie about Hitler's final days, "Downfall," with Bruno Ganz as Hitler. It's subtitled and I think it's based on Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge memoirs of those last days in the bunker.

Trailer
[video=youtube;htvYfe6wz_8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvYfe6wz_8[/video]

There are tons of parodies taken from scenes from the movie and re-subtitled on youtube, some are quite funny.

 

[0101ABA]

A German federal court said Monday that it has thrown out the appeal a 95-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard against his conviction for being an accessory to murder.

The decision to uphold Oskar Groening's conviction sets an important precedent for German prosecutors' efforts to pursue further suspects who served at Nazi death camps and other Holocaust perpetrators.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-german-nazi-guard-appeal-20161128-story.html

 

[JerseyGirl]

Last year, a court ruled that Oskar Gröning, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" due to his job counting the money taken from victims at the camp in German-occupied Poland, must serve time after years of dispute over whether his health and age permitted a prison term. However, he died in March, aged 96, before starting his four-year sentence.

Reinhold Hanning, a former SS guard at Auschwitz, was also sentenced at age 94 and died before his sentence started.

Former SS guard to stand trial for Nazi crimes | DW | 21.09.2018