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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 1,333,641 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Oskar Gröning is the 79th most popular extremist (down from 67th in 2019), the 1,429th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,133rd in 2019) and the 10th 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 79 out of 209. Before him are Richard Ramirez, Willi Herold, James Earl Ray, Robert-François Damiens, Carlo Gambino, and Taha Yassin Ramadan. After him are Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Johann Rattenhuber, Armin Meiwes, Gary Ridgway, Kang Kek Iew, and Anders Behring Breivik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Oskar Gröning ranks 93. Before him are John Money, Geoffrey Wilkinson, James Clavell, Gene Roddenberry, Murray Bookchin, and Françoise Gilot. After him are Mary Douglas, Raymond Goethals, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Leonardo Sciascia, George Roy Hill, and Stanley Ho. Among people deceased in 2018, Oskar Gröning ranks 70. Before him are Anthony Bourdain, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Ruud Lubbers, Thorvald Stoltenberg, Joe Jackson, and Samir Amin. After him are Eunice Gayson, Leon M. Lederman, Robert Faurisson, Aharon Appelfeld, Tom Wolfe, and Christine Nöstlinger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Gröning ranks 1,429 out of 6,142. Before him are Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618), Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (1654), Arthur Auwers (1838), Hannah Höch (1889), Wilhelm Müller (1794), and Jupp Derwall (1927). After him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), Frederick II, Elector Palatine (1482), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602), Johann Schein (1586), and Thomas Abbt (1738).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Oskar Gröning ranks 10. Before him are Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), and Willi Herold (1925). After him are Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Armin Meiwes (1961), Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949), Ernst Zündel (1939), and Irmgard Möller (1947).

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