Ex-guard for Nazis citizenship revoked

[sybylla]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/racine/may05/325408.asp

80-year-old Caledonia man faces deportation
By MEGAN TWOHEY
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Posted: May 11, 2005, published May 12, 2005

An 80-year-old Racine County man who has lived in the Midwest for nearly 50 years has been stripped of U.S. citizenship for his service as a guard at Nazi concentration camps.

A federal judge this week revoked the citizenship of Josias Kumpf on the grounds that it was granted in violation of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, a law that barred people who had "personally advocated or assisted persecution" from entering the country. He may now be deported.

Kumpf, who didn't tell immigration officials of his service in the camps, only of his service in the German military, has argued that the law didn't apply to him because, by his account, he never shot or harmed anyone while serving as an SS guard.

But Judge Lynn Adelman of the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin sided with the federal Office of Special Investigations when he ruled that "a person who served as a guard at a camp or prison in which prisoners were subject to persecution 'personally advocated or assisted' in the persecution of those prisoners."

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I find it amazing that these people are still turning up 60 years later. Perhaps, after deportation to the fatherland where he no longer has familiar family and friends, the meaning of his role in the rounding up, shipping off and murdering of 12 million people will finally sink in.

[Vladimir]

1. I find it amazing the US has the gall to deport former SS officers

while Guantanamo Bay is still operating... (oh yeah, I know its not a death camp. Neither were many concentration camps to start off with) the hypocrisy is extraordinary.

Mr. Kumpf ought to be persecuted for his part in the Nazi crimes of course, although I expect some exemption might be made due to his age. His guilt, though, seems to me indisputable.

[bobthedrummer]

2. It isn't that uncommon to find them in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin had 37 WWII POW camps, some of the prisoners stayed here.

Milwaukee is a wonderful city-it was also a major Bund center.

Other Nazis were given identities and jobs as Americans working in national security.

It's not surprising that some of them are still around, so are our WWII veterans that defeated them and were betrayed when Nazis were clandestinely "recruited" to battle godless communism.