A Tennessee man who served as an armed guard at a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during World War II is ordered to be deported to Germany, a judge rules Thursday.
Berger admitted that he guarded prisoners to prevent them from escaping during the workday and during their trips to and from work sites and between camps and sub-camps.
As British and Canadian forces advanced on German forces in 1945, the Nazis abandoned Meppen, and Berger helped to guard prisoners during their"forcible evacuation" —"a nearly two-week trip under inhumane conditions, which claimed the lives of some 70 prisoners," the court found, according to the Justice Department.He receives a pension from Germany based on his employment, “including his wartime service,” according to the U.S. Justice Department.
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 Department of Justice said. “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.”
The investigation into Berger was initiated by the Justice Department's Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section and was conducted with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center.
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