Mr Lipschis acknowledges he served with the Waffen SS at the camp in occupied Poland, but claims he was only a cook.

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Nor does he express a view as to whether Clark, who wrote about the Waffen SS in almost homoerotic terms, was a fascist.

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Haenel Waffen of Suhl, Germany.

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