Former Nazi guard given five-year sentence for his role in the Holocaust

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After a trial delayed by health issues and age-related difficulties in prosecuting the defendant, Germany convicts a 101-year-old man of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder.

Germany has convicted a 101-year-old man of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.The 101-year-old former camp guard was sentenced to five years for his role in the Holocaust

40,000 to 50,000 people are likely to have died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1936 and 1945 Located on the outskirts of Berlin, Sachsenhausen was established in 1936, and intended to be a model facility for Nazi death camps across occupied Europe. The centenarian defendant claimed that he had worked as a farm labourer during that time, however, the court believes that he worked at the camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing."You watched deported people being cruelly tortured and murdered there every day for three years."

 

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How long it will take to get sentences for Ukrainian far-right neo-nazi?

never too late

Pathetic.

US war criminals who massacred women, children and elderly in Mi Lai massacre in Vietnam got absolutely zero. US rules based order.

Ghoulish.

Previous news articles on BBC / Europe media. Stated In the past he had been cleared by different organisations that investigate the war. Is it a case of last person standing .

hard labor? clearly cracking sugar cubes at his extremely advanced age

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