The Associated Press has an
article about an old man guilty of bad things:
A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted of three hundred thousand counts of accessory to murder and given a four-year sentence.
Oskar Groening testified during his trial at the state court in Lüneburg, in northern Germany, that he guarded prisoners’ baggage after they arrived at Auschwitz and collected money stolen from them. Prosecutors said that amounted to helping the death camp function.
The charges against Groening related to a period between May and July of 1944 when hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Nazi-occupied Poland. Most were immediately gassed to death.
Unusually for trials of former Nazi camp guards, Groening has been open about his past throughout the proceedings. Groening said, when his trial opened in April of 2015, that he bears a share of the moral guilt for atrocities at the camp, but that it was up to judges to determine whether he is guilty under criminal law.
In their verdict, judges went beyond the thirty-nine month sentence prosecutors had sought. Groening’s defense team had called for him to be acquitted, arguing that, as far as the law is concerned, he did not facilitate mass murder.
Rico says that's a sentence of .005 days per murder...
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