101- Year old man convicted of 3518 murders during Holocaust sentenced to prison

 He's the oldest person to ever face trial for Nazi crimes. A 101-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of being a Nazi guard in a concentration camp.

A German court has sentenced a former concentration camp guard to five years behind bars as prosecutors accused him of involvement in the murder of 3,518 prisoners.

According to DW, the man was accused of involvement in the murders committed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1942 and 1945.

He is the oldest person ever to have faced trial for the horrific crimes the Nazis committed, with prosecutors claiming he 'knowingly and willingly' took part in crimes at the camp which played host to the horrors of the Holocaust.

They presented evidence in the form of documents which showed there was a guard at the camp with the same name, date of birth and birthplace of the man.

Pleading his innocence all throughout the trial, the 101-year-old denied any knowledge of what happened in the concentration camp and insisted he was instead a farm labourer.

Among the allegations levelled at the man is participation in the execution of Soviet prisoners of war by firing squad and gassing prisoners to death in the concentration camp's gas chambers.

The trial began in October of last year and the man was not jailed for the duration due to his advanced age.