Prosecutors say Reinhold Hanning met Jewish prisoners as they arrived at the camp in occupied Poland and may have escorted some to the gas chambers.
Mr Hanning has admitted being a guard but denies involvement in mass murder.
He is being tried in the city of Detmold, in what is likely to be one of the last cases of its kind.
Mr Hanning is one of four elderly former Nazi guards - three men and a woman - who are due to go on trial in the coming months.
The Nazis killed about 1.1m people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews.
'Spewing fire'
Mr Hanning was an SS guard at Auschwitz from 1943-44, at a time when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were murdered there.
His trial is being held in the west German city's chamber of commerce, in order to accommodate more people.
Each trial session will last just two hours, due to the defendant's age.
source bbc
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