With his targets in their nineties, the end of the hunt is near — but Eli Rosenbaum is determined to keep searching until time runs out
Last month, Friedrich Karl Berger, a white-haired, 95-year-old resident of bucolic Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was expelled from the United States.
Berger, known to his friends and family as “Fritz,” lost his appeal of a federal immigration judge’s order that he be thrown out of the country and sent back to his native Germany. The judge determined that upon being admitted to the US in 1959, Berger had concealed his past as an armed guard watching over concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust. His hopes of spending his final days in the comfort of his rambling suburban American home were dashed.
“We proved that he took part in the death march from this sub-camp near Meppen, Germany, back to the main camp of Neuengamme,” says Eli Rosenbaum of the United States Justice Department.
Will Berger be the last German war criminal to be deported from the US?
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