Oskar Groening faces jail over Auschwitz atrocities

German prosecutors have sought a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland, saying his role there made him an accessory to murder.

Oskar Groening has admitted guarding prisoners’ baggage after they were unloaded from cattle cars, and collecting money stolen from the new arrivals and sending it to Berlin.

Prosecutors told the court in their closing arguments that his role helped the camp function, and he should be convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.