In Germany, the 96-year-old “Auschwitz Accounting” was recognized as healthy for serving a sentence in prison

In Germany, medical experts ruled that the 96-year-old Oscar Grening, who served as an accountant in Auschwitz during the Second World War and found guilty of murdering 300 thousand people, despite health problems, is ready to serve in prison, Reuters reports.

Grening was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015. However, he still has not begun to serve his sentence due to numerous appeals, which were sent to the Supreme Court to defend Grening. This was told to reporters by the official representative of the Hanover prosecutor's office, Katrin Sepher.

"After receiving an official medical report, we decided that Mr. Grening is ready to go to prison. The 96 -year -old man has medical restrictions, but if he receives adequate medical care in a prison or another penitentiary institution, he will be able to serve his sentence," Sepker said.

Hans Horltermann, representing Grening's interests, in turn, said that, in his opinion, his client could not survive in prison. “We will insist that the court make this decision. We think that an objective medical examination that has not yet happened to evaluate Grening’s health,” the lawyer emphasized.

The trial of the former accountant began in April 2015. The accused admitted his moral responsibility for what was happening in Auschwitz, but left the court the right to resolve the issue of the legal side of the case. He also previously stated that he could only pray to God for forgiveness, because he could not ask him from the victims of the Holocaust.

The defendant was nicknamed the "accountant" because he checked the baggage of Jews arriving in Auschwitz, kept the money confiscated from prisoners, and sent money to Berlin. Grening worked in the death camp from 1942 to 1944. Nevertheless, the main accusations concern the May-July 1944, when there were 425 thousand Hungarian Jews, 300 thousand of which were destroyed in gas chambers. The collective lawsuit against Grening filed 20 former prisoners of Auschwitz and their relatives.

The convicted person is the only person who openly talk about what he was doing in the camp. Moreover, Grening himself 10 years ago, having heard of the denial of the Holocaust, began to perform with stories about Auschwitz. In his interview, he said that he saw gas chambers, saw a crematorium, saw the killings of children, but considered it "right." Before the process, Grening made a long speech, in which he asked for forgiveness from his victims and their loved ones.