Oskar Groening, a former Auschwitz death camp guard who is known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, has launched a bid for clemency in a final bid to avoid serving his sentence as an accessory to murder, German authorities said Monday, according to The Associated Press.
Attorneys for 96-year-old Groening filed the appeal with prosecutors in Lueneburg, where he was convicted in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews.
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