Reinhold Hanning, a 93-year-old former member of the SS, is scheduled to go on trial early next year. He is being charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at Auschwitz.
The court says that the trial will probably begin in the middle of February and will only last for two hours each day, out of consideration for the defendant's age and health.
Hanning was at Auschwitz between January 1943 and June 1944. His lawyer has previously claimed that, while Hanning served at the main Auschwitz camp, he was not at the Birkenau section where most victims were killed.