A German court in the northeastern state of Brandenburg on Tuesday sentenced a former concentration camp guard to five years in jail, APA reports citing DW.

Prosecutors accused the pensioner of involvement in the murders of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1942 and 1945. The man was accused of aiding and abetting in the shooting and killing of Soviet prisoners of war, as well as the murder of inmates using poison gas. Prosecutors explained that prisoners were also driven to their deaths through “the enforcement and maintenance of inhuman conditions.”

At the age of 101, he is the oldest person to have ever faced trial over Nazi crimes during World War II and to be found guilty.

“In your role, you willingly supported the mass extermination,” presiding judge Udo Lechtermann told the accused.

The defendant, who now lives in Brandenburg state, had pleaded innocent throughout the trial. He did so again on Monday, just ahead of Tuesday’s verdict.

The prosecutors had called for the defendant to be punished with five years in prison.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency