US to deport ex - Nazi camp safeguard to Germany
A good US judge has ordered the deportation of a former Nazi camp guard to Germany, where as a citizen he is still obtaining a pension for his "wartime service".
Immigration judge Rebecca Holt said Friedrich Karl Berger, now 94, had served found in the camp where prisoners were held found in "atrocious" conditions.
Mr Berger told the Washington Post newspapers that he previously been ordered to work in the camp during Universe War Two.
Mr Berger has been living in the US since 1959.
It had been not immediately clear if Mr Berger, a good resident of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, would appeal - a good approach that could delay his deportation for quite some time.
"After 75 years, that is ridiculous. I cannot consider it," he told the Washington Content newspaper. "You're forcing me out of my residence."
What did the judge guideline?
Judge Holt ordered the deportation on Thursday after a two-day trial in metropolis of Memphis, Tennessee.
In her ruling, she said Mr Berger's "willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution occurred" constituted assistance in Nazi persecution.
The judge said he had served in Germany's Neuengamme concentration camp system, where prisoners were held in "atrocious" conditions and worked "to the point of exhaustion and loss of life".
Through the trial, Mr Berger admitted he previously avoided prisoners from fleeing the camp in Meppen, north-western Germany.
But he soon after told the Washington Content that he previously been forced to function in the camp, spent a short while there and carried no weapon.
