A former Nazi concentration camp guard has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The 89-year-old was jailed for the murder and attempted murder of prisoners during World War Two. Former SS officer Anton Malloth was found guilty of beating a prisoner to death at a Czech concentration camp in 1944 by a court in Munich. He was also found guilty of shooting and leaving a prisoner for dead at the same camp in 1943.
Mr Malloth was tried at Munich's Stadelheim prison in a provisional courtroom because of his advanced age after three doctors declared him fit for trial. Nicknamed "Handsome Tony", Mr Malloth was one of the most feared guards at Theresienstadt, now known as Terezin, a camp which had an abnormally high death rate.
He oversaw a notorious camp unit for political prisoners where inmates were regularly abused, tortured and beaten. The former SS corporal has been investigated for alleged involvement in 756 murders before, but that case was abandoned in April 1999 for lack of evidence.
A fresh investigation was however opened based on evidence from a witness in the Czech Republic. It is expected to be one of the last trials related to Nazi crimes in Germany because of the time that has elapsed.
