101-year-old former Nazi guard sentenced to five years in prison for murder in concentration camp

A 101-year-old man has been sentenced in Germany on Tuesday for 3,18 counts of murder and service at the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

The Neupupupup Regional Court sentenced him to five years in prison, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

The man, who was not identified, has denied working as a guard “SS” in the camp and that it had helped and promoted the killing of thousands of prisoners.

At the trial, which opened in October, the man said he had worked as a farm worker near Pasewalk in northeastern Germany during the period for which he was charged.

However, the court saw him prove that he worked at the Berlin suburb camp between 1942 and 1945 as a registered member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary arm, German news agency DPA reported.

The presiding judge of the case, Udo Lechtermmann, has estimated that the defendant had assisted in Nazi terror and murder machinery.

“You willingly supported this mass extinction with your” activity, Lechtermmann said.