Had Graner been a German when the Nazi party came to power, I have no doubt that he would have been among the first to don a brown shirt and jackboots.
His mentality is identical to the mentality of those who perpetrated all of the horrors you mentioned.
More to the point though, he's a criminal and deserves to pay for his crimes.
Nobody is ever above the law. That is one of the founding principles of modern Western civilization.
Repeat. Nobody is EVER above the law.
To say that he should be given a medal is disgusting.
(Sorry for the double post, I screwed up my html in the first one and didn't bother to preview it. My mistake!)
10 years is a bit harsh.