May 6, 2013 nytimes.com
Germany: Ex-Nazi With Link to Auschwitz Is Arrested
By CHRIS COTTRELL

German authorities on Monday arrested a 93-year-old former Nazi soldier, saying that they had “compelling evidence” that he had worked as a guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp and was complicit in murders there. The man, Hans Lipschis, whose name is fourth on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of “most wanted Nazi war criminals,” was taken into custody at his home in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, according to Claudia Krauth, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office there. Mr. Lipschis, who emigrated to the United States after the war but was deported in 1983 after an investigation by the Office of Special Investigations brought his Nazi past to light, admitted to the German newspaper Die Welt last month that he had served with a Nazi SS unit at Auschwitz but only as a cook. Charges have not yet been filed, Ms. Krauth said, adding that prosecutors are still investigating Mr. Lipschis’s role at the camp. They believe he worked there from 1941 to 1945.

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