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Title: 93-year-old who served in Auschwitz under investigation in Germany
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WaPo
URL Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world ... 2-a8e6-b6e4cc7c49d1_story.html
Published: Apr 24, 2013
Author: AP
Post Date: 2013-04-25 17:54:51 by X-15
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Views: 180
Comments: 6
BERLIN — A 93-year-old man who acknowledges he served with the SS in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp but claims he was only a cook is under investigation by German authorities as a possible accessory to murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Hans Lipschis was deported from the U.S. in 1983 for lying about his Nazi past when he immigrated to Chicago in the 1950s after the war. With no evidence linking him to specific war crimes, however, it was impossible under previous German law to bring charges against him in Germany, said Thomas Will, a prosecutor with the German office that deals with Nazi war crimes. But now the Lipschis case is being pursued on the same legal theory used to prosecute former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who died last year while appealing his 2011 conviction in Germany for accessory to murder on the grounds that he served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp. Under the new line of thinking, even without proof of participation in a specific crime, a person who served at a death camp can be charged with accessory to murder because the camp’s sole function was to kill people. Even though the Demjanjuk conviction is not considered legally binding because he died before his appeals were exhausted, Will said that his office is investigating a total of about 50 people in the same category. The initial investigation of the Lipschis case is now done, and the case has been handed to Stuttgart prosecutors to determine whether there is enough evidence to bring charges, Will said. In an interview this month with Die Welt newspaper at his home in southwestern Germany, Lipschis said he spent his entire time as a cook for the other SS guards of the camp, and had witnessed none of the atrocities. He did say, however, that he “heard about” what was going on
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
When all the potato-peelers are finally executed, who will the jiz go after next? This shit is unbelievable. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken The children of German soldiers carry the multi-generational guilt of The Holocaust in their blood OY VEY!!
#2. To: Lod (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: Lod (#1)
Look in the mirror, Loddy. who will the jiz go after next?
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#4. To: Esso, Lodwick (#3)
Look in the mirror, Loddy. Thanks Esso, now you've bummed out everyone here. Want to buy a Chrysler? When all the potato-peelers are finally executed, who will the jiz go after next?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#5. To: Lod (#1) (Edited)
This shit is unbelievable. They'll need a new holocaust soon, the "perps" from the prior one are all nearly dead. In a few more years no one is even going to care about the old one anymore, it'll have been too long. When all the potato-peelers are finally executed, who will the jiz go after next?
#6. To: Katniss, 4 (#5)
Hopefully, they'll get a real one this time. They'll need a new holocaust soon...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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