Prosecutors have slowed down the prosecution of Nazi affiliates long enough, and it's time justice was done. Germany's war crimes laws have recently undergone a change for the better. According to Spiegel, an international news source highly respected around the world, said that the previous conviction of a Nazi concentration camp guard for the murder of thousands of Jews has raised hope in the search for justice. “Demjanjuk was found guilty by a Munich court and sentenced to five years in prison for being an accomplice to the murder of 28,060 Jews while he was a guard at Sobibor in occupied Poland.” According to Kurt Schrimm, a German public prosecutor, “Demjanjuk's conviction represented a new interpretation of the law”. Thanks to Demjanjuk's conviction, prosecutors no longer need to establish guilt in specific murders to obtain a conviction. Now it is enough to be an accomplice to the murders that occurred during the Holocaust to find Oskar Gröning guilty of the countless charges of which he is accused. Therefore, according to the German legal system, Gröning is guilty of having supported the Nazi regime's efforts aimed at the extinction of the Jews and the conquest of Europe.
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