He was an SS guard at Auschwitz from 1942 to 1944. He has said he knew what was going on at the camp but did not act to stop it.
The Nazis killed about 1.1 million people at Auschwitz in occupied southern Poland.
The verdict came after a trial in the northern German town of Detmold which began in February.
Hanning`s lawyers had argued that he had never personally killed or beaten anyone.
It could be one of the last trials of Nazi officials involved in the Holocaust.
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