Oskar Groening trial : Prosecutors seek jail for Bookkeeper of Auschwitz
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Date July 8, 2015 - 3:00AM
Defendant and former Nazi SS officer Oskar Groening, dubbed the 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz', sits in the courtroom prior to the continuation of his trial in Lueneburg, Germany. Photo: Reuters
German prosecutors are seeking three and a half years' jail for a former SS officer known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz".
Oskar Groening, 94, stands accused before a court in the northern city of Lueneburg of 300,000 counts of "accessory to murder" in the cases of deported Hungarian Jews sent to the gas chambers between May and July 1944.
Former prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp and plaintiff, Irene Weiss, arrives for the trial of former German SS officer Oskar Groening at a courtroom in Lueneburg, Germany. Photo: AP
Public prosecutor Jens Lehmann said in closing arguments that his sentencing request was based on the "nearly incomprehensible number of victims", but mitigated by "the limited contribution of the accused" to their deaths.
Groening's trial, expected to be one of the last of its kind, began in April.
