ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Jakob Denzinger, a suspected former Nazi prison guard at Auschwitz and other camps, has died in his native Croatia. He was 92.
The death announcement by Denzinger’s family says he was buried Saturday at a local cemetery near Osijek in eastern Croatia. Local media said he died at hospital on Thursday.
Denzinger was born in present-day Croatia, which was part of Yugoslavia at the time. He started serving with the Nazi SS at the age of 18, in 1942, while Croatia was under a pro-Nazi puppet regime.
He was posted at several camps, including the Auschwitz death camp complex in occupied Poland.
Denzinger moved to the U.S. after the war, settling in Ohio where he became a successful plastics industry executive.