“Berger’s removal demonstrates the Department of Justice’s and its law enforcement partners’ 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,” said Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson said in Saturday s release.
WANING DAYS OF THE WAR
Berger himself was not a Nazi. He was a member of the German Navy, dispatched as a 19-year-old to help guard prisoners in the Neuengamme concentration camp system that was based in Hamburg.
He was among a group of Navy guards ordered to keep watch over prisoners as they came and went in the Meppen work camp near the Dutch border. Meppen had two subcamps.
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