CELLE - It is unlikely that 96-year-old former SS man Oskar Gröning can avoid his prison sentence. A court in Celle concluded on Wednesday in appeal that the elderly ex-Nazi is fit enough to disappear behind the bars.
The former SS man admitted that he had taken money from deported Jews and had supervised the arrival of transports at the extermination camp. According to the court, he cooperated in the Nazi killing machinery, even though he did not kill anyone himself.