Deportation of ex-Nazi prison guard living in Tennessee upheld, court rules
The attraction of Tennessee resident Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen who served as an armed guard of focus camp prisoners throughout World War II, was dismissed final week.
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upheld a Memphis-based choose’s Feb. 28 resolution that Berger may very well be faraway from the U.S. beneath the 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act as a result of his “willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took place” constituted help in Nazi persecution.
From 1938 to 1945, greater than 100,000 folks have been imprisoned on the former focus camp (KZ) Neuengamme.
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Prosecutors mentioned Berger was an armed guard in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system close to Meppen, Germany, close to the border with the Netherlands.
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“Berger was an active participant in one of the darkest chapters in human history. He attempted to shed his nefarious past to come to America and start anew, but thanks to the dedication of those at the Department of Justice and Homeland Security Investigations, the truth was revealed,” Deputy Assistant Director Louis A. Rodi III mentioned in a statement. “War criminals and violators of human rights will not be allowed to evade justice and find safe haven here.”
A two-day trial for Berger concluded in February, with the presiding choose discovering that prisoners in Meppen have been held in “atrocious” circumstances and have been exploited for out of doors compelled labor “to the point of exhaustion and death.”
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Berger admitted that he guarded prisoners to stop them from escaping throughout their dawn-to-dusk workday, and on their method to the worksites. The court discovered that Berger helped guard the prisoners throughout their forcible evacuation to the Neuengamme primary camp. The journey took two weeks beneath inhumane circumstances and claimed the lives of some 70 prisoners.
