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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Gröning has received more than 1,389,780 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Gröning is the 100th most popular extremist (down from 79th in 2019), the 1,793rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,429th in 2019) and the 12th 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 100 out of 283. Before him are Jacques Mesrine, Luciano Leggio, Jack Unterweger, Harold Shipman, Sirhan Sirhan, and Wilhelm Voigt. After him are Robert Hansen, Leonarda Cianciulli, Barry Seal, Johann Rattenhuber, Richard Ramirez, and Monika Ertl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Oskar Gröning ranks 110. Before him are John Money, Nobuo Matsunaga, George Roy Hill, James Clavell, Hannah Szenes, and Virgilio Barco Vargas. After him are Meir Amit, Maurice Richard, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Betty Friedan, Arno Babajanian, and Gavriil Ilizarov. Among people deceased in 2018, Oskar Gröning ranks 89. Before him are Hayden White, Aharon Appelfeld, Fernando del Paso, Keith O'Brien, Oliver Dragojević, and Kim Jong-pil. After him are John Young, Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Kira Muratova, Adem Demaçi, Belisario Betancur, and Tsukasa Hosaka.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Gröning ranks 1,793 out of 7,253. Before him are Sebastian Vettel (1987), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Philipp Mainländer (1841), and Horst Schumann (1906). After him are Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), Adolph Diesterweg (1790), Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856), Christian Lorenz (1966), and Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (1649).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Oskar Gröning ranks 12. Before him are Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Willi Herold (1925), Armin Meiwes (1961), and Fritz Honka (1935). After him are Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Monika Ertl (1937), Therese Brandl (1902), Eugen Weidmann (1908), Wilhelm Boger (1906), and Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss (1951).

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