article_snippet.sent: SS Sergeant Oskar Groening - known as 'the bookkeeper of Auschwitz' - is set to go on trial charged with complicity in the killing of 300,000 Jews at the Nazi extermination camp .
article_snippet.sent: An SS sergeant known as 'the bookkeeper of Auschwitz' is set to go on trial charged with complicity in the killing of 300,000 Jews at the Nazi extermination campthe Nazi extermination camp.
article_snippet.sent: Groening, known as 'The Bookkeeper' for 'The Bookkeeper' role in the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, was tasked with meeting the trains bringing victims there and robbing those aboard of victims possessions.
article_snippet.sent: Groening, a sergeant in the dreaded SS, was in Auschwitz as a guard for two and-a-half years, but prosecutors are charging him with complicity in the murders of 300,000 people who arrived on 137 trains during the 48 day period of that summer in 1944 because of him intact service records.
article_snippet.sent: Such a defence worked in Germany before 2011 and the trial of Sobibor death camp guard John Demjanjuk, but no longer.
article_snippet.sent: John Demjanjuk was tried and convicted for being part of the machinery of mass murder at the camp where 250,000 Jews were liquidated without a single shred of evidence linking Groening to a crime.
article_snippet.sent: There was no-one left alive to testify at Groening trial in Munich for Groening role in the extermination of 28,000 Dutch Jews.
article_snippet.sent: Groening was in Auschwitz as a guard for two and-a-half years, but prosecutors are charging Groening with complicity in the murders of 300,000 people over a two-month period in 1944 .
article_snippet.sent: Kurt Schrimm, who heads Germany's sole Nazi hunting agency, prepared the case against Groening.
highlights_snippet.sent: SS sergeant Oskar Groening, 93, faces trial for being a guard at Auschwitz .
  