80-year-old former Nazi faces deportation

[Rasp]

ZOGs to deport Nazi from Amerika

80-year-old former Nazi faces deportation

An 80-year-old man, who has been a U.S. citizen for 40 years, faces deportation after admitting to being a Nazi soldier, says the Los Angeles Times.

Josias Kumpf, who has been living with his daughter in Racine, Wis., had worked as a sausage stuffer in Chicago before retiring.

When confronted by U.S. Justice Department lawyers, Kumpf admitted in a sworn statement that he had served in the dreaded Nazi SS corps and stood sentry over Jewish prisoners as an SS Death's Head guard in concentration camps in Poland, the Times reported.

While in the United States, he married and raised five children. A federal judge in Milwaukee has ordered his citizenship revoked. He will be deported i
f his appeal is rejected.

When government lawyers deposed Kum
pf in Milwaukee, he insisted he was not a killer. "I was a good boy before and I'm still a good boy now," he told the Times. "I don't hurt nobody, and I don't even hurt the flies if they're behaving."

Kumpf entered the United States as a legal immigrant in 1956.

Indepth article here (5 pages)

 

[Johnny99]

White Senior Citizen Kicked Out Of Country​

Feds: Ex-Nazi in Wisconsin deported to Austria​

Updated 3/19/2009 2:30 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was living in Wisconsin has been deported to Austria, Jewstice Department officials said Thursday.
Prosecutors said 83-year-old Josias Kumpf served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and the Trawniki labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and at slave labor sites in occupied France.

U.S. investigators found he participated in a 1943 mass shooting in Poland in which 8,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in pits at Trawniki in a single day.

"Josia
s Kumpf, by his own admission, stood guard with orders to shoot any surviving prisoners who attempted to escape an SS massacre that left thousands of Jews dead," Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita Glavin said in a statement.

Peter Rogers, Kumpf's attorney, didn't immediately return a message Thursday.

Investigators say Kumpf joined the SS Death's Head guard forces in 1942.

Kumpf was born in what is now Serbia, immigrated to the U.S. from Austria in 1956, settled in Racine, Wis., and became a U.S. citizen in 1964.

A federal judge in Milwaukee had previously found Kumpf didn't disclose he had been an SS guard because he feared it would disqualify him when he applied for a visa to the U.S.

In a 2003 interview, Kumpf said he was taken from his home in Yugoslavia as a 17-year-old and forced to serve as a guard, but he didn't participate in any atrocities.

At a 2006 hearing Rogers described Kumpf as "a gentleman who was involuntarily inscripted into the army
, assigned to the SS and then stationed at places where admittedly terrible things happened. My client never took part in them."

But at a subsequent deportation hearing, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich said Kumpf participated in an operation that resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent victims.

"His culpability in this atrocity does not diminish with the passage of time," Friedrich said at the time.

Since 1979, the U.S. Jewstice Department has won cases against 107 people who participated in Nazi crimes.

 

[Whitebear]

Austria frees 'murder pits guard'

Josias Kumpf

A former SS man alleged to have taken part in the extermination of 8,000 Jews in one day has been freed by Austria, a day after being extradited from the US.

The Austrian justice ministry said the former guard, 83-year-old Josias Kumpf, could not be put on trial because the statute of limitations had expired.

The US says he acted in the killing and burial in pits of Jewish interns at the Trawniki camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

He left Austria in 1956 to settle in the US, and became a citizen in 1964.

The US justice department sued to strip Mr Kumpf, who lived in Wisconsin, of his citizenship in 2003.

Austrian justice mini
stry spokeswoman Katharina Swoboda said Vienna had warned the US that Mr Kumpf would not be prosecuted in Austria because the statute of limitations relating to his crimes had expired in 1965.

"We have always pointed out to the United States that he cannot be charged here with the crimes of which he is accused," she said.

'Orders to shoot'
The justice ministry also said Mr Kumpf had been a teenager at the time of the alleged offences and had never been an Austrian citizen.

The opposition Greens have called on the government to amend the law to allow for the prosecution of alleged Nazi war criminals regardless of the time elapsed.

The US justice department said on Thursday that Mr Kumpf had admitted that he stood guard over a pit where prisoners were being gunned down and "finished off" the wounded.

Mr Kumpf was found to have served as a guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and Trawniki in Nazi-occupied Poland, where the mass shooting took place in 1943.

His a
ssignment had been to watch for victims who were still "halfway alive" or "convulsing" and prevent their escape, the US justice department said.

There was no immediate comment from Mr Kumpf or his lawyer, Peter Rogers. They have in the past denied that Mr Kumpf had a role in any atrocities.