the trial of 0skar groening, a landmark moment for germany.e exact number of people who died in auschwitz is not known but it was at least a million. there's no evidence groening was directly responsible for any deaths but his job was to itemise valuables, money, but also mundane things like shoes and spectacles, taken from jews as they arrived at the camp. he spoke to the bbc in a documentary in 2005 and was asked if it was fair for him to have a family and children while so many jewish families and others were killed. translation: absolutely not. everybody is looking out for themselves. so many people died in the war, not onlyjews, so many things happened, so many were shot, people burnt to death, so many were burnt. if i thought about all of that, i wouldn't be able to live one minute longer. in court, 0skar groening had confessed to what he called his moral guilt and he was one of the very few concentration camp guards who admitted the holocaust took place but due to ill—health and requests for clemency, he never served a single day of his