This biography profiles her childhood, life, crimes, and timeline. One strand of the debate addresses the question whether Gröning was complicit in the extermination of prisoners, and whether he was culpable for this complicity. With the help of a Red Cross worker, former SS guard Oskar Groening leaves the court after the verdict of his trial in Lueneburg, Germany, Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years behind bars in July 2015, for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at a Nazi death camp in Poland Patrick Knox 12 Mar 2018, 19:12 Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] (); 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German political and military leader and a convicted war criminal.Göring was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.. A veteran World War I fighter pilot ace, he was a recipient of the Pour le Mérite ("The Blue Max"). He was buried at burial place. Ilse Koch was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the chief of the Nazi concentration camps in Buchenwald and Majdanek. Groening worked in the Auschwitz for more than two-and-a-half years, and has lived a comfortable life ever since near the Lueneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Oskar Groening worked at the train tracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where he collected money from the luggage brought to the camp by Hungarian Jews in 1944. Thomas had just finished interviewing my father about his experience in Auschwitz and my father had agreed to be a co-plaintiff in the case against Groening. Thomas Walther presses the red record button on the old video camera, sits in a chair and rests his hand on the shoulder of the older man. ... Read more » Ironically, the Lueneburg Heath is the place where S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler was buried in an unmarked grave after committing suicide when he fell into British hands at the end of the war. Harald had 4 siblings: Herbert Oskar Gregorius Gröning and 3 other siblings. From September 1942 to October 1944, Gröning was an SS guard and administrator at Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Former Nazi guard Oskar Groening could be jailed aged 96 for role at Auschwitz He has been living at home after appealing the four-year sentence for … Oskar was born on January 27 1889, in Bromarf. Oskar Groening Feels the Full Weight of the Court Groening was found guilty by the Lueneburg court of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp, in Nazi-occupied Poland, during World War II, and was given a four-year sentence for his crimes. The prosecution accuses him of complicity in at least 300,000 cases of murder in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Oskar Groening is being tried on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder, related to a period between May and July 1944 when around 425,000 Jews from Hungary were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Nazi-occupied Poland and almost immediately gassed to death. He died in a hospital on Friday, according to Spiegel Online. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass killing in the camp. Harald passed away on month day 2004, at age 87 at death place. Former Auschwitz SS officer Oskar Gröning is currently being tried as an accessory to murder for his role as an administrator in the extermination camp, and the trial has stirred up a lot of debate. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners. Edit was born on May 21 1891, in Bromarf. Court sentences 94-year-old Oskar Groening to four years in jail for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people. On April 21st Oskar Gröning, age 93, appeared before a court of law in the German city of Lüneburg. July 15, 2015