Reinhold Hanning was sentenced to prison for his role in the Holocaust. As a guard at Auschwitz, he was fully aware of the gas chambers. At 94, he may well be the last of his confederates to be tried.
Former Auschwitz guard convicted in one of Germany's last Holocaust trials
The trial included testimony from around a dozen Holocaust survivors, many of them extremely elderly, who detailed their horrific experiences, recalling piles of bodies and the smell of burnt flesh in the death camp.
"It is a just verdict, but he should say more, tell the truth for the young people," said Leon Schwarzbaum, a 95-year-old Auschwitz survivor from Berlin.