A Tennessee resident who formerly served as a concentration camp guard in Nazi Germany has been ordered to be removed from the U.S. following a two-day trial in Memphis.
March 5, 2020, 5:10 PMPeter Jennings joined Wiesel on the 40th anniversary of the Holocaust camp’s liberation.has been ordered to be removed from the United States following a two-day trial in Memphis.
Friedrich Karl Berger, according to the Justice Department, was ordered removed after admitting he served as an armed guard for a sub-camp of Neuengamme near Meppen, Germany, in which Jews, Poles, Russians, Danes and other political opponents of the Nazi regime, were subject to"atrocious" conditions working"to the point of exhaustion and death."
Berger admitted to investigators that he guarded prisoners during a two week journey after the camp had to be evacuated due to the advance of British and Canadian forces.The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington.Still a German citizen, Berger actually continued to receive a pension for his past employment in Germany that even cited"his wartime service," the Justice Department said in a statement.
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