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A 101-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday by a German court to five years in prison on charges of aiding and abetting the killing of thousands of prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen during World War II.
During the trial, which began in October last year, the man, who has not been identified, pleaded not guilty, saying he was a farm worker in northeastern Germany during that period.
However, the court has said it has been established that he worked in the camp near Berlin in the period 1942-1945, as a member of the Nazis.
Prosecutors have based their case on Nazi documents bearing his name, date and place of birth, as well as other evidence.
The trial was held near the 101-year-old’s residence.
Court hearings were held for only two and a half hours during the day, and were interrupted several times due to the accused’s health complications.
More than 200,000 people were held in that camp from 1936-1945.
Tens of thousands of prisoners have died as a result of starvation, disease, forced labor, or medical experiments.
Some of them even died from gunshots, hangings or gas chambers.
As in other camps, the Jewish prisoners were mistreated, and some who survived were sent to Auschwitz in 1942.
Sachsenhausen was liberated in April 1945 by Soviet forces, who used the camp grounds as prisons for political prisoners and other convicts by Soviet military tribunals.
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