Posted on 02/20/2021 5:15:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 95-year-old Tennessee resident, who was part of acts of persecution in Nazi Germany, has been deported to Germany, the U.S. Department of Justice said Saturday.
Friedrich Karl Berger, of German citizenship, was deported because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored persecution while serving as an armed guard of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system in Nazi Germany, in 1945, according to the statement. "Berger's removal demonstrates the Department of Justice's and its law enforcement partners' commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses," said Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson in a statement.
Evidence was found in European and U.S. archives, "including records of the historic trial at Nuremberg of the most notorious former leaders of the defeated Nazi regime," Wilkinson added. "In this year in which we mark the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg convictions, this case shows that the passage even of many decades will not deter the department from pursuing justice on behalf of the victims of Nazi crimes."
The Board of Appeals upheld in November a Tennessee immigration judge's decision last February that Berger was removable under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act due to his "willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took place."
The court found that Berger worked at a Neuengamme sub-camp near Meppen, Germany where prisoners, included "Jews, Poles, Russians, Danes, Dutch, Latvians, French, Italians, and political opponents" of the Nazis, with the largest group including Russian, Dutch and Polish civilians.
The judge in the February trial found that Meppen prisoners were held during the winter of 1945 in "atrocious" conditions where they were exploited for outdoor forced labor, working "to the point of exhaustion and death."
By the end of March 1945, allied British and Canadian forces had advanced, and the Nazis abandoned Meppen. Berger was part of the forcible evacuation to the Neuengamme main camp, a nearly two-week trip where inhumane conditions killed some 70 prisoners.
The court cited Berger's admission that he never requested a transfer and he continues to receive a pension from Germany based on his employment in Germany, "including his wartime service."
The Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section initiated the probe in partnership with the Nashville Homeland Security Investigations.
Berger is the 70th Nazi persecutor removed from the United States, according to the DOJ.
> Btw, how is the hunt for Jimmy Hoffa’s killer going? <
Please be patient. The FBI hasn’t finished their investigation into who shot Lincoln yet. They’ll get to Hoffa eventually.
He would have been 14 in 1940.
The people who are tracking down and prosecuting this guy need to have their backgrounds investigated. WE need to know what *They* were going when they were 14.
When will the Nazi collaborator KSoros be deported and stripped of his citizenship?
No doubt you are referring to the fabulously wealthy and well known former kapo who betrayed his own people and turned Jews over to the Nazis. You know the one; he's the Democrat who used his immense wealth to engineer the worst election fraud and betrayal of America in her history.
Deport their great grandchildren I suppose.
Great question as to why all high ranking National Democrat Socialist party members are exempt from any law.
Minor point, you can’t deport a US citizen.
He could be exiled...
In 1945 transfer would have likely been to the Russian front.
Investigating crime is not the FBI’s strong suit. Suppressing evidence and blackmailing using that evidence are what they’ve done best since J. Edgar.
20 years old in 1945.
Did the investigation begin in 1959? If so then there is hope that the Hunter Biden laptop investigation will come out: in 2083.
Most importantly, this brilliant investigation has struck fear into the heart of all 95 year old ex-Nazis!
I’m surprised they could take time out from framing Trump supporters, tracking down fake “hate-criminals”, and writing reports on “white supremacists”.
Great question.
Berger has been in the USA since 1959, but never became a US citizen. He is “removable under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act due to his ‘willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took place.’”
Too bad they can’t find a way to apply the Holtzman Amendment to Soros.
So when will we get around to prosecuting North Vietnamese, North Koreans, Chinese and Russians involved in the torture and murder of US POWs during the Korean and Vietnam Wars?
OK - the German was a bad guy.
On the other hand, he was 20 years old when the war ended, and since age 8 he had lived under a totalitarian Nazi regime, and since age 14 he had lived at the center of a world war.
I am doubtful that we can reasonably expect a young person like that to be 100% responsible for his own actions.
The guy was what 17 to 20 years-old during WW2?
In case you haven't been paying attention, the Left regards all Trump supporters as Nazis, to be hunted down without mercy.
"WILLING" service? I kinda doubt they asked for volunteers. In the military in war time, you go where you are assigned.
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