Ex Nazi officer gets like 5-10 years in prison

Really took a while to get this trial going, huh? How do you prosecute a trial where you're trying to get down to specific details of things when all the events happened more than 50 years ago?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/europe/12nazi.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss