Posted on 03/05/2020 4:42:27 PM PST by ransomnote
A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee, has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, on the basis of his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system (Neuengamme).
After a two-day trial, U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca L. Holt issued an opinion finding Friedrich Karl Berger removable under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act because his “willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took place” constituted assistance in Nazi-sponsored persecution. The court found that Berger served at a Neuengamme sub-camp near Meppen, Germany, and that the prisoners there included “Jews, Poles, Russians, Danes, Dutch, Latvians, French, Italians, and political opponents” of the Nazis. The largest groups of prisoners were Russian, Dutch and Polish civilians.
Judge Holt found that Meppen prisoners were held during the winter of 1945 in “atrocious” conditions and were exploited for outdoor forced labor, working, as at other Nazi camps, “to the point of exhaustion and death.” The court further found, and Berger admitted, that he guarded prisoners to prevent them from escaping during their dawn-to-dusk workday, and on their way to the worksites and also on their way back to the subcamp in the evening.
At the end of March 1945, with the advance of British and Canadian forces, the Nazis abandoned Meppen. The court found that Berger helped guard the prisoners during their forcible evacuation to the Neuengamme main camp – a nearly two-week trip under inhumane conditions, which claimed the lives of some 70 prisoners. The decision also cited Berger’s admission that he never requested a transfer from concentration camp guard service and that he continues to receive a pension from Germany based on his employment in Germany, “including his wartime service.”
“Berger was part of the SS machinery of oppression that kept concentration camp prisoners in atrocious conditions of confinement,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. “This ruling shows the Department's continued commitment to obtaining a measure of justice, however late, for the victims of wartime Nazi persecution.”
“This case is but one example of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s commitment to ensuring that the United States will not serve as a safe haven for human rights violators and war criminals,” said Assistant Director David C. Shaw of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), National Security Investigations Division, who oversees the Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center. “We will continue to pursue these types of cases so that justice may be served.”
In 1946, British occupation authorities in Germany charged SS Obersturmführer Hans Griem, who had headed the Meppen sub-camps, and other Meppen personnel with war crimes for “ill-treatment and murder of Allied nationals.” Although Griem escaped before trial, the British court tried and convicted the three remaining defendants of war crimes in 1947.
The removal case was jointly tried by Eli Rosenbaum, HRSP Director of Human Rights Enforcement and Policy, HRSP Senior Trial Attorney Susan Masling and ICE New Orleans, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (Memphis), with assistance from HRSP Chief Historian Jeffrey S. Richter. The investigation was initiated by the HRSP and was conducted in partnership with HSI’s Nashville SAC office.
Since the 1979 inception of the Justice Department’s program to detect, investigate, and remove Nazi persecutors, it has won cases against 109 individuals. Over the past 30 years, the Justice Department has won more cases against persons who participated in Nazi persecution than have the law enforcement authorities of all the other countries in the world combined. HRSP’s case against Berger was part of its ongoing efforts to identify, investigate and prosecute individuals who engaged in genocide, torture, war crimes, recruitment or use of child soldiers, female genital mutilation, and other serious human rights violations. HRSP attorneys prosecuted the first torture case brought in the United States and have successfully prosecuted criminal cases against perpetrators of human rights violations in Guatemala, Ethiopia, Liberia, Cuba, and the former Yugoslavia, among others.
The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the Department of Justice. Learn more about the history of our agency at www.Justice.gov/Celebrating150Years.
When will George Soros be striped of his citizenship and deported to Hungary for the same offense?
Probably does not matter much.
He must be in his 90’s.
If he was 16 in 1945 he would be over 90.
Correction, similar offense, he cooperated with the Nazis in Hungary seizing the assets of his fellow Jews.
when the last Nazi dies, does this government department shut down or will they start hunting down other nursing home patients?
Nothing has been done to the Communists who ran the Soviet Gulags.
Oh ok, 75 years ago but how about the criminals who tried to overthrow the US government 5 minutes ago?
Now let’s re-amend 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act
To include radical islam terrorists who attacked any American within the past 30 years
... Physically or verbally ...
NO MATTER WHERE on Earth that attack took place
Get ‘em Outta Here
And the defendant is how old? Will he survive the trip to Germany?
Exactly.
soros needs this done to him.
Teenager and we have cops all over the place who “only follow orders”. Lon Horiuchi?
“Over the past 30 years, the Justice Department has won more cases against persons who participated in Nazi persecution”
I wish there was no statute of limitations on hunting down the Obama conspirators.y
They'll continue the hunt until every conscripted German soldier associated with the camps has been hunted down and tried regardless of their personal actions...........
He was a Young Jew. He worked with the man who hid him. He helped the man dispose of the belongings of Jews who were sent to the camps.
Sorts was not a Nazi. He did not work in the employ of nazis.
Where he was bad is that he had no remorse about selling the Jewish stuff for a profit, saying “Someone would have done it...why not us.”
He is dispicable, but he was not a Nazi.
I also see a lot of posts that say Barr is "letting the swamp have it's way" etc. if he's at an event and doesn't bring Comey et. al. in orange jumpsuits to it. I want to encourage you. Barr is one of a legion of people draining the swamp from the bottom up.
Barr doesn't list classified activities on the DOJ website or release it to the news. Watching the DOJ website as I do, I've seen countless cases about medical fraud, tax evasion and two re Panama Papers that confirm he's drying up their resources and getting lower level convictions from those who serve the elites; these lower level cases are put before the judge when elites are tried. For example, revelations in the Panama Papers (international off shore accounts of the rich and famous) lead to convictions of their tax preparers and those convictions are taken to tax trials of the elites. Of course the elites will also face other charges too, but tax trials are a start and could hold them in place while the deep state's financial and thug resources are dried up so the elites can't retaliate (won't have funds and with it, power) when bigger cases are brought.
During the Obama years, Sotero depleted our military to the point that when Trump took office, the country was in no condition to fend off domestic and international aggression meant to thwart prosecution of our DS. But Trump fought hard and long to get money for the wall and to rebuild the military (I think he spent 1.5 Trillion rebuilding our military) while the tentacles of the DS were being cut, and the other half of the country is being educated (often against their will) about what the Dems/Deep State/ Media really have in mind for us.
It's been hard waiting to see prosecutions turn the spotlight on the highest profile villians in D.C., but the groundwork is there and is beginning to surface. (Also, those in high places providing depositions and engaged in prosecution won't tell us about it, and the optics require that we not be told.) For details re some of the "groundwork", watch Rudy Guiliaini's video series called "Common Sense" on Youtube for all the evidence re the Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-9J07yyuXQTx_uZQchtwsg
Without educating the public, and in the face of MSM propaganda, civil unrest would be cultivated by the DS and efforts would be made to provoke bloodshed. It's likely Pelosi et. al. would demand UN intervention to "save us" from President Trump, by falsely reporting that he is behind the civil unrest in a coup attemp (i.e., claim he wants to become dictator).
President Trump's strategy matches the winning strategy employed in a famous chess game 100 years ago (Capablanca vs Marshall), The President does love his chess games; he has used this strategy to keep the economy stable enough to impress many with economic wins across the board (win hearts, minds, re-election). That's what the DS is hammering on now, fanning the flames of fear re coronavirus to destabilize the econimy; it's about all the DS has left.
Don't worry if you see Barr at a press event or having lunch! The deep state is still being dismantled even while Barr has coffee, WE'RE STILL WINNING!
“And the defendant is how old? Will he survive the trip to Germany?”
He’d be better off in Germany if Trump doesn’t win.
I didn’t see his age in the article, he to be pushing 100, why bother? This is what is left the privates as all the higher ups are long dead.
“...but he was not a Nazi...”
He was a punk Judas...how else could he have survived? Schumer would be the same type now.
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