What was claimed
A picture shows George Soros as an SS officer.
Our verdict
Incorrect. The picture is of Oskar Gröning, the so-called “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”, and not Mr Soros.
George Soros was not a Nazi SS officer
31 July 2019
A post claiming to show a picture of financier George Soros as a Nazi has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.
The picture is not of Mr Soros—who is Jewish, and was a teenager in Hungary when it came under Nazi occupation—but rather of Oskar Gröning, an SS guard known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz”.
The misidentification has been made several times before, and it’s previously been debunked by various American news organisations.
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