BREAKING: Former Auschwitz guard convicted of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

HUFFPOST ALERT Former Auschwitz Guard Convicted Of 300,000 Counts Of Accessory To Murder Oskar Groening, a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II, has been convicted on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. Credit: Associated Press The charges against Oskar Groening related to a period between May and July 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. Read the whole story Follow HuffPost on Facebook and Twitter Know something we don't? Email us at breakingnews@huffingtonpost.com Unsubscribe | Forward | Manage your notification preferences 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003