101-year-old ex-Nazi guard sentenced to prison

• "The court has come to the conclusion that, contrary to what you claim, you worked in the concentration camp as a guard for about three years," Judge Udo Lechtermann said, the German news agency dpa reports, per AP.
• "You willingly supported this mass extermination with your activity," Lechtermann said. "You watched deported people being cruelly tortured and murdered there every day for three years," per AP.
• Schuetz has repeatedly denied the allegations and instead said he worked as an agricultural laborer in northeastern Germany during that time.

State of play: A recent legal precedent in Germany set that anyone who assisted in running a Nazi camp can be prosecuted for being an accessory to the murders committed, AP notes.

What they're saying: "Even if the defendant will probably not serve the full prison sentence due to his advanced age, the verdict is to be welcomed," said Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, AP reports.