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| Germany arrests 'former Auschwitz guard' Hans Lipschis | Germany arrests 'former Auschwitz guard' Hans Lipschis |
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| A 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Auschwitz extermination camp has been arrested in southern Germany. | A 93-year-old alleged former guard at the Auschwitz extermination camp has been arrested in southern Germany. |
| Hans Lipschis was taken into custody in Aalen after prosecutors concluded there was "compelling evidence" that he had been complicit in murder. | Hans Lipschis was taken into custody in Aalen after prosecutors concluded there was "compelling evidence" that he had been complicit in murder. |
| Mr Lipschis acknowledges he served with the Waffen SS at the camp in occupied Poland, but claims he was only a cook. | Mr Lipschis acknowledges he served with the Waffen SS at the camp in occupied Poland, but claims he was only a cook. |
| Last month, the Simon Wiesenthal Center placed his name as number four on its list of most-wanted Nazis. | |
| The organisation accused him of participating in the mass murder and persecution of innocent civilians, primarily Jews, at Auschwitz between October 1941 and 1945. | |
| Mr Lipschis is the first person arrested as a result of a series of new investigations launched by the German authorities into some 50 former Auschwitz guards who are still alive. |