A court in Germany has sentenced John Demjanjuk to five years in prison for his role in the killing of almost 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland.
The Munich court found him guilty of being an accessory to mass murder as a guard at Sobibor camp in Poland during World War II.
However, the court said Demjanjuk, 91, will be released from prison because of his age.
Prosecutors said he was a guard at Sobibor camp from 27 March 1943 to mid-September 1943.
He denied serving as a guard, saying he was a prisoner of war and a victim too.
Lawyers for Demjanjuk have said they will appeal against the conviction. The trial began 18 months ago.
The BBC reports an estimated 250,000 people died in the gas chambers at Sobibor.
Demjanjuk was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of the 28,060 people who were killed there while he was a guard. He has been in custody since being extradited from the United States in 2009.
Born in Ukraine in 1920, Demjanjuk grew up under Soviet rule. He was a soldier in the Red Army in 1942 when he was captured by the Germans.
Demjanjuk was convicted in a separate Holocaust trial two decades ago in Israel of being a guard at Treblinka in Poland and sentenced to death.
The ruling was overturned by Israel's supreme court after new evidence emerged.
Demjanjuk emigrated to the United States in the early 1950s.
