Hans Lipschis

Hans Lipschis (7 November 1919 – 16 June 2016)^[3] was a member of the SS who worked at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

Hans Lipschis
Born	Antanas Lipšys (1919-11-07)7 November 1919[1] Kretinga, Lithuania[2]
Died	16 June 2016(2016-06-16) (aged 96) Aalen, Germany
Known for	Alleged Nazi war crimes

Biography

The Simon Wiesenthal Center alleges that he was a guard and listed him in fourth place on their most wanted list.^[4] At the age of 93, Lipschis was arrested on 6 May 2013 for being complicit in murder. He was held in jail until December 2013.^[5] Lipschis claimed that while he worked at Auschwitz, he was only a cook.^[6] He was found to be unfit for trial in December 2013 and March 2014.^[7][8] The prosecution from Stuttgart, Germany, has created virtual Auschwitz to reveal what was visible from watchtowers. To secure convictions, the prosecutors are using a mixture of testimonies and archived paperwork alongside modern techniques, including 3D modeling.^[9][10]

Lipschis was born Antanas Lipšys in Lithuania in 1919 to a Protestant family.^[11][12][13] In the 1950s he immigrated to Chicago in the United States, but was deported in 1983 for "lying about his Nazi past".^[14] At the time of his arrest, Lipschis lived in an apartment in the southwestern German town of Aalen.^[15]