{"id":157025,"date":"2021-02-21T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=157025"},"modified":"2021-02-21T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:58:46","slug":"former-nazi-guard-living-in-tennessee-deported-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nazi-guard-living-in-tennessee-deported-to-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nazi Guard Living In Tennessee Deported To Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-nazi-guard-living-in-tennessee-deported-to-germany%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=157025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Neuengamme.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The United States government deported a former Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany on Saturday for participating in state-sponsored persecution back in 1945.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, a former guard in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system, was deported under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act because he willingly served at a camp where persecution took place, according to the Department of Justice. Specifically, Berger worked at Meppen, a sub-camp in the system where prisoners worked \u201cto the point of exhaustion and death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBerger\u2019s removal demonstrates the Department of Justice\u2019s and its law enforcement partners\u2019 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,\u201d said Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson in a statement Saturday. \u201cThe Department marshaled evidence that our Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section found in archives here and in Europe, including records of the historic trial at Nuremberg of the most notorious former leaders of the defeated Nazi regime. In this year in which we mark the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a two-day trial in February of last year, Berger admitted that his guarding duties consisted of preventing prisoners from escaping while they worked in forced labor. The court also found Berger was responsible for evacuating prisoners under inhumane conditions when the Nazis were forced to abandon Meppen as the allies approached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Berger never requested a transfer from guard service during his time at the Neuengamme system. More than 50,000 prisoners, including Jews, Poles, Russians, Danes, Dutch, Latvians, French, and Italians died at the camp, nearly half the people who were ever imprisoned there, according to estimates from the <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/neuengamme\">Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a>. As of February of 2020, Berger was still receiving a German pension that cited his employment with the government, including in wartime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are committed to ensuring the United States will not serve as a safe haven for human rights violators and war criminals,\u201d said Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson. \u201cWe will never cease to pursue those who persecute others. This case exemplifies the steadfast dedication of both ICE and the Department of Justice to pursue justice and to hunt relentlessly for those who participated in one of history\u2019s greatest atrocities, no matter how long it takes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Berger is the 70th Nazi persecutor to be deported from the United States. According to the German news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/former-nazi-guard-arrives-in-germany-after-us-deportation\/a-56635837\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>, Berger arrived on Saturday and has been referred to authorities for questioning. German prosecutors previously dropped a case against him, citing a lack of evidence that he was directly responsible for a specific murder. He has reportedly argued in the past that he was just following orders.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government deported a former Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany on Saturday for participating in state-sponsored persecution back in 1945. 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