A 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz who this month was sentenced to five years in jail is appealing his conviction.

Reinhold Hanning was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 prisoners at the Nazi death camp between 1942 and 1944.

During his trial, which took place over the last four months in Detmold, west Germany, Hanning confessed to knowing what was happening at the death camp and doing nothing to stop it.

Detmold state court confirmed Hanning’s lawyers have now filed an appeal against the verdict, but gave no more information.
Hanning will remain free while an appeal is in process.