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Auschwitz Cook Under Investigation In Germany

4/24/2013

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A 93-year-old former Nazi SS man who claimed he was a cook at the death camp is now being investigated anew. Bloomberg Prosecutors in Stuttgart are investigating a former Nazi SS man who was allegedly a cook at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, the BBC reported on Wednesday.According to reports in the German media, 93-year-old Hans Lipschis, who worked at the camp from 1941, is currently living in Aalen in southern Germany.


Related: Hunting Nazi war criminals Germany to investigate 50 Auschwitz guardsLipschis appears as number four on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi, according to the BBC. Lipschis is one of 50 former Auschwitz staff who are still alive and are being newly investigated by German authorities, BBC reported.His wartime identification papers show he belonged to a company of SS guards in the Polish death camp. It is unclear what role he had, if any, in the extermination of the camp's inmates. He claimed he was merely a cook and did not see the gas chambers and the crematorium.The investigation was made possible following the conviction of John Demjanjuk in May 2011 in Germany of being an accessory to the murders of 28,000 Jews in the Sobibor extermination camp.His conviction allowed Germany's judicial system to cover new legal territory because Demjanjuk's presence as a guard at a site of a mass murder was enough to implicate him in the murders that were carried out there, which means potential defendants like Lipschis might no longer be able to claim they were only following orders."Simply being where the killing took place would be enough for a conviction," the BBC quoted Kurt Schrimm, head of Germany's Central Judicial Office for the Investigation of Nazi crimes, as saying.Lipschis moved to Chicago in 1956 but was expelled in 1983 when IS authorities discovered he was hiding his Nazi past. At the time, American authorities were unable to prove he was personally responsible for any killings.German news site Der Westen reported that until 2010, 6500 Nazi war criminals were convicted, and 169 life sentences were given. JPOST
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Jerry
4/24/2013 02:07:31 pm

The real Soup Nazi.

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Next customer
4/24/2013 10:05:18 pm

Who ordered the scrambled eggs? Yes, they're ready. Will that be to stay or to go?

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Fresh from the oven
4/24/2013 10:20:58 pm

While this is obviously great news, I hope they go after the notorious Pastry Chef from Treblinka.

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Ahmajinedad
4/24/2013 10:42:16 pm

I can't believe all these tasteless Holocaust comments, especially since it never happened.

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Table for 2 please
4/25/2013 01:04:23 am

Survivors have told me that he was quite a chef and the ambiance was lively.

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schnell schnell
4/25/2013 01:05:40 am

True, but the lines were crazy.

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