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"The essential, almost frightening, point about Oskar Gröning is that he is one of the least exceptional human beings you are ever likely to meet."

"Yet when he finally came to trial in Germany, [Oskar] Gröning was accused as an accomplice in the murder of some 300,000 Hungarian Jews who had been transported to Auschwitz in 1944. By the time he was sentenced to a four-year jail term — which his lawyers appealed — he was 94."

From "Oskar Gröning, the ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ Is Dead at 96" (NYT)(My post headline is a quote from a BBC journalist.)

For many years, Germany prosecuted only those suspects whose wartime actions could be proved to be directly linked to specific atrocities, a principle that emerged from a series of trials in Frankfurt in the 1960s. So sure was Mr. Gröning of his own position that he went public in 2005 with long interviews retelling the minutiae of his experiences as what he termed a tiny cog in the gears of the Final Solution....

[He told Der Spiegel in 2005] that throughout his early life, as a member of ultranationalist movements including the Hitler Youth, he had been raised to believe that Jews were Germany’s enemy within. His concerns about what he saw at Auschwitz related more to the modalities of killing than to its rationale or supposed principles....

On the first day of his trial [in 2015]... Mr. Gröning addressed the judge, Franz Kompisch, saying: “It is beyond question that I am morally complicit. This moral guilt I acknowledge here before the victims with regret and humility.” But “as concerns guilt before the law,” he added, “you must decide.”...

When the trial ended in mid-July 2015, Judge Kompisch ruled that for all his protestations, Mr. Gröning himself had taken the decision to accept “a safe desk job” at Auschwitz. “It was perhaps affected by the era, but it was not because you were unfree,” the judge said, adding that he “had freedom to think” and yet “asked to join the SS.”

"Yet when he finally came to trial in Germany, [Oskar] Gröning was accused as an accomplice in the murder of some 300,000 Hungarian Jews who had been transported to Auschwitz in 1944. By the time he was sentenced to a four-year jail term — which his lawyers appealed — he was 94."

From "Oskar Gröning, the ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ Is Dead at 96" (NYT)(My post headline is a quote from a BBC journalist.)

For many years, Germany prosecuted only those suspects whose wartime actions could be proved to be directly linked to specific atrocities, a principle that emerged from a series of trials in Frankfurt in the 1960s. So sure was Mr. Gröning of his own position that he went public in 2005 with long interviews retelling the minutiae of his experiences as what he termed a tiny cog in the gears of the Final Solution....

[He told Der Spiegel in 2005] that throughout his early life, as a member of ultranationalist movements including the Hitler Youth, he had been raised to

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believe that Jews were Germany’s enemy within. His concerns about what he saw at Auschwitz related more to the modalities of killing than to its rationale or supposed principles....

On the first day of his trial [in 2015]... Mr. Gröning addressed the judge, Franz Kompisch, saying: “It is beyond question that I am morally complicit. This moral guilt I acknowledge here before the victims with regret and humility.” But “as concerns guilt before the law,” he added, “you must decide.”...

When the trial ended in mid-July 2015, Judge Kompisch ruled that for all his protestations, Mr. Gröning himself had taken the decision to accept “a safe desk job” at Auschwitz. “It was perhaps affected by the era, but it was not because you were unfree,” the judge said, adding that he “had freedom to think” and yet “asked to join the SS.”

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