Germany - Charges Over Auschwitz Role - NYTimes.com German prosecutors said Thursday that they had charged a 93-year-old man with being an accessory to murder over what they said was his role as an Auschwitz death camp guard. The suspect, Hans Lipschis, was charged in connection with the killing of about 10,500 people who were brought to Auschwitz between October 1941 and September 1943 aboard trains from the Netherlands, Berlin, Belgium, France and the Theresienstadt ghetto in what is now the Czech Republic. Mr. Lipschis, who was taken into custody in May, has acknowledged being assigned to an SS guard unit at Auschwitz. But he maintains he only served as a cook and was not involved in any war crimes.