German court convicts man of Nazi crimes

A German court has convicted a seventy-five-year-old man of being an accessory to the murder of more than eighty Jews, many of them children, in Ukraine in 1942.

The court in Cologne handed down a suspended sentence of twenty months.

The man - who was nineteen at the time of the killings - was accused of transporting around twenty Jewish children to mass graves where they were shot by local police and militia.

He also helped round up Jewish adults prior to their execution.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service