The United States sent to Germany a resident of Tennessee with German citizenship, Friedrich Karl Berger, who turned out to be a former guard in a subcamp in the Nazi concentration camp system Neuengamme. This was reported by the press service of the US Department of Justice.
The immigration judge allowed him to expel Berger back in February 2020. In November of the same year, the Court of Appeal upheld this decision. The court found that Berger served as a guard in Neuengamme, where the largest groups of prisoners were citizens of the USSR, Holland and Poland. Evidence of his guilt was found in American and European archives.
The judge’s verdict states that the prisoners at Neuengamme were held in appalling conditions and used for forced labor outdoors in the winter of 1945, working until “exhaustion and death.” Berger guarded the prisoners so they could not escape during the working day.
At the end of March 1945, when the allied forces were actively advancing, the Nazis left the subcamp. The court found that Berger helped guard the prisoners during the forced evacuation to the main camp of Neuengamme, which lasted almost two weeks in inhuman conditions, which resulted in the death of about 70 prisoners. Berger admitted that he never asked for a transfer from the concentration camp security. He continues to receive a German pension based on his work in Germany, “including military service.”
Neuengamme is the largest concentration camp in northwestern Germany. It was a network of concentration camps, consisting of a main camp and more than 85 subcamps. More than 100,000 people have passed through them.
- On February 5, it was reported that in Germany, 95-year-old Irmgard F., who during World War II worked as the secretary of the commandant of the Stutthof concentration camp, was accused of complicity in the massacres.
- On February 9, in Germany, a 100-year-old citizen was accused of performing the duties of a guard in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, as well as complicity in the murders on 3518 counts.
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