BERLIN, June 17 (Reuters) - A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, according to the judge presiding over what could be one of Germany's last Holocaust trials.

Reinhold Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in facilitating the slaughter at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. (Reporting by Elke Ahlswede and Petra Wischgoll; Writing by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Caroline Copley)

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