Five years in prison for 101-year-old concentration camp guard Josef S.

A German court finds Josef S. guilty of involvement in the murder of prisoners in the Sachsenhausen camp. The case against him was probably one of the last of its kind.

The accused Josef S. (with his face covered) is brought to the courtroom in Brandenburg an der Havel on Tuesday.

Michele Tantussi/AP/Keystone

For a long time, the German judiciary did little or nothing to hold accountable those people who are often described as the cogs in the Nazi murder machine. This has changed for a little over ten years, but the fight for justice is also a race against time: the accused, against whom lawsuits have been brought in recent years, were old people over the age of 90.

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