German court upholds “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” conviction

Karlsruhe, Germany (dpa) – A German federal court upheld on Monday the conviction of a 95-year-old man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people, clearing the way for the trials of other elderly people who served at Nazi death camps. Oskar Groening had appealed his four-year jail…