Posted on 09/22/2006 8:11:06 AM PDT by Al Gator
The former SS guard kept her secret buried, even from her Jewish husband. Now exposed, the Bay Area widow, 83, is back in Germany.
WASHINGTON — She lived alone in a tiny, top-floor apartment in one of the tougher sections of San Francisco. At 83, she was short and a bit stout. Diabetes took the sight in one of her eyes; arthritis left her leaning heavily on a cane. For long trips, she took a taxi.
Her husband had died. He was the love of her long life, a short, dapper man who had worked as a bartender and waiter at some of the city's larger hotels and was active in Jewish activities. They buried him in a Jewish cemetery outside the city.
He had been gone just a short while when two officials from the Justice Department in Washington knocked on her door. They confronted her with a terrible secret that all these years she had managed to keep from him.
In Germany during World War II, a much younger Elfriede Lina Rinkel, then single, a girl with blue eyes and striking red hair, had worked as an SS guard at one of the Nazi regime's infamous concentration camps. Called Ravensbruck, it was a slave labor prison for women, and during the year she worked there with a trained attack dog more than 10,000 women died.
Some succumbed to starvation and disease. Others were gassed. More died after cruel medical experiments. Some perished from sheer exhaustion.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that the woman with the pleasant smile and the German accent had been deported to Germany. She admitted that she had lied on her U.S. visa application.
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BUT, we can spend all the money in the world to track down and destroy a little old lady who may or may not have been a BAD PERSON over 65 years ago.
What is reality?
Sorry, no sympathy from me. Die Nazi Scum!
Let's see here...
Which, to you, is worse?
Participating in mass genocide or sneaking, albeit illegally, across the border?
BTW she lied to get into this country anyway, so that, in a way, nullifies your illegals comment in the first place.
Take this case and multiply by 12 million
What are you complaining about? This act IS deporting an illegal alien.
And Gunther Grass hid his own Nazi past for much of his life until he got a contract for a tell all book.
Hope he's barred any further entry into this country.
Die Nazi Scum!
do you feel the same about the Pope?
She lied on her application but at least she filed the paperwork unlike many of the 11million.
In Germany during World War II, a much younger Elfriede Lina Rinkel, then single, a girl with blue eyes and striking red hair, had worked as an SS guard at one of the Nazi regime's infamous concentration camps. Called Ravensbruck, it was a slave labor prison for women, and during the year she worked there with a trained attack dog more than 10,000 women died.
They should have made her swim back to Germany.
You have missed the point.
We have illegals thumbing their noses at us, and we just can't deport them, but this old bat, who will probably be dead in a year or two, we spend years and millions on.
This is stupid.
GMTA. The only difference between her and any other illegal alien is that Pat Buchanan doesn't want to deport her.
We barred Kurt Waldheim from entry into the US, so I would hope we would do the same to Grass.
Peter Jennings lied on his application too. He was to renounce his Canadian citizenship but he still proudly declared himself to be a Canadian citizen.
You need to bring your conscience into the shop - looks like it might be totalled.
What's more, we have ACTIVE Islamonazi antisemites in this country and there isn't the same will to deport.
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na...Heyheyhey...GOODBYE!!!
So what? If she had been a Nazi rocket scientist, she wouldn't have needed to lie at all -- because the U.S. government would have done all the lying for her (and fabricated a new identity for her, too).
I agree there. We should have never let that Nazi into the country in the first place. But still, better late than never.
The comments by the Buchananite lunatics on this thread boggle the imagination.
Definitely sounds like a threat to the community. < / sarcasm>
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