Guards at concentration camps during World War II
Lived in the US since 59 after Canada
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An old man in his 90s who served as a German Nazi concentration camp guard was deported from the United States to Germany. It has been more than 60 years since he settled in the United States, but the fact that he was a part-time job was revealed due to a service card found on a sunken ship, and he could not avoid being deported even at the age of 95.
According to the Washington Post on the 20th (local time), the US Department of Justice ordered the deportation of the German citizen Friedrich Karl Berger (pictured), who lived in Tennessee, because he had worked in a concentration camp under the Neuengame concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany during World War II. did. At that time, not only Jewish prisoners, but also Russian, Dutch, Polish civilians, and political opponents from France and Italy were held.
Berger was in charge of guards when British and Canadian troops advanced to the camp in 1945, when the prisoners were forcibly moved to the camp. At that time, 70 people died in the two-week shift. In addition, the prisoners were divided into two ships and anchored in the port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea, and a miserable attack by British fighters resulted in a regrettable catastrophe that killed hundreds of people in the last weeks of the war.
Documents were retrieved from a ship that sank years later, and history officials at the Ministry of Justice found a record of Berger’s service in the camp, including his wartime service, and the fact that he received a pension from Germany based on his employment in Germany. It also served as the basis for the decision to deport. He was reportedly assigned to the camp in the last few months of World War II while serving in the German Navy. Berger complained of resentment that he had been ordered to work in the camp at the time, stayed for a while, and had no weapons.
Berger moved to Canada with his wife and daughter after World War II, and then moved to the United States in 1959 to settle. The United States banned the entry of those who served in Nazi persecution, but the law expired in 1957. Berger also revealed that he served in the German Navy when applying for immigration to the U.S. The U.S. later banned the entry or residence of those who participated in the Nazi persecution through amendments to the Holtzman Act in 1978. Berger is the 70th person to be deported under this law. No one is currently undergoing additional deportation screening. Germany withdrew a case against Berger last year due to insufficient evidence, but after deportation, it could be investigated further by German police.
/ Reporter Park Ye-na [email protected]
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