Berger, who had retained German citizenship, was deported for taking part in “Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution” while serving as an armed guard at the Neuengamme concentration camp system in 1945, the US Justice Department said. More than 40,000 prisoners died in the Neuengamme system, records show. Among those who were brought to late justice were Oskar Gröning, an accountant at Auschwitz, and Reinhold Hanning, an SS guard at the same camp. Both were convicted of complicity in mass murder at the age of 94 but died before they could be imprisoned. Days later, a 100-year-old former guard at the Sachsenhausen camp, north of Berlin, was charged with complicity in 3,518 murders.

Source: The Local March 31, 2021 09:45 UTC