Tags: Germany | Nazi Investigation

German Prosecutors Shelve Case against Ex-Nazi Guard

Thursday, 10 December 2020 11:01 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have shelved their investigation into a former Nazi concentration camp guard living in the United States for lack of evidence, authorities said Thursday.

Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, still faces possible deportation from the U.S. after being ordered expelled by a Memphis, Tennessee court in February. It was not clear when that might take place.

Berger has admitted serving as a guard at a camp in northwestern Germany, which was a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, for a few weeks near the end of the war but has said he did not observe any abuse or killings, the dpa news agency reported.

Prosecutors in the city of Celle said they had been unable to refute the suspect's account and had decided to shelve the case against him.

Berger has been living in the U.S. since 1959.

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German prosecutors have shelved their investigation into a former Nazi concentration camp guard living in the United States for lack of evidence, authorities said Thursday.Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, still faces possible deportation from the U.S. after being ordered expelled...
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Thursday, 10 December 2020 11:01 AM
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