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Oskar Gröning

1921 - 2018

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Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and he was in charge of the personal property of arriving prisoners. On a few occasions he witnessed the procedures of mass killing in the camp. After being transferred from Auschwitz to a combat unit in October 1944, Gröning surrendered to the British at the end of the war; his role in the SS was not discovered. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Gröning is the 108th most popular extremist (down from 100th in 2019), the 1,885th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,793rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Extremist.

Oskar Gröning was a member of the SS who was stationed at Auschwitz. He was charged with the task of counting and sorting the money that was taken from prisoners. Gröning is most famous for being the only member of the SS to be tried for his crimes.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Oskar Gröning ranks 108 out of 283. Before him are Michel Fourniret, Matija Gubec, Armin Meiwes, Bobby Joe Long, Ma Barker, and Hermine Braunsteiner. After him are Therese Brandl, Joachim Kroll, Henry Lee Lucas, Leonarda Cianciulli, Wadie Haddad, and Sirhan Sirhan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Oskar Gröning ranks 115. Before him are Jaroslav Drobný, Hannah Szenes, Gavriil Ilizarov, Ariel Ramírez, George Roy Hill, and Gene Roddenberry. After him are Virgilio Barco Vargas, Angelica Rozeanu, Stein Rokkan, James Whitmore, Géza Anda, and Lidia Gueiler Tejada. Among people deceased in 2018, Oskar Gröning ranks 99. Before him are Irena Szewińska, Hayden White, David Goodall, Odvar Nordli, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Samir Amin. After him are Nicole Fontaine, Paul Andreu, Bruno Sammartino, Kira Muratova, Darío Castrillón Hoyos, and Ermanno Olmi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Gröning ranks 1,885 out of 7,253. Before him are Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (1905), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), Eugen Fink (1905), Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891), Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737), and Albert Leo Schlageter (1894). After him are Theodor Nöldeke (1836), Herbert Kappler (1907), Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648), Hemma (800), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Marie-Louise von Franz (1915).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Oskar Gröning ranks 14. Before him are Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Fritz Honka (1935), Willi Herold (1925), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Monika Ertl (1937), and Armin Meiwes (1961). After him are Therese Brandl (1902), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Eugen Weidmann (1908), Irmgard Möller (1947), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), and Ernst Zündel (1939).

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