| Hans Lipschis | |
| Birth Name: | Antanas Lipšys |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Kretinga, Lithuania |
| Death Place: | Aalen, Germany |
| Known For: | Alleged Nazi war crimes |
Hans Lipschis (7 November 1919 - 16 June 2016)[1] was a member of the SS who worked at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center alleges that he was a guard and listed him in fourth place on their most wanted list. 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. Lipschis claimed that while he worked at Auschwitz, he was only a cook. He was found to be unfit for trial in December 2013 and March 2014.[2] 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.[3] [4]
Lipschis was born Antanas Lipšys in Lithuania in 1919 to a Protestant family. In the 1950s he immigrated to Chicago in the United States, but was deported in 1983 for "lying about his Nazi past".[5] At the time of his arrest, Lipschis lived in an apartment in the southwestern German town of Aalen.[6]