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Nazi Guard Deported from US to Austria
by Maayana Miskin
(IsraelNN.com) A former Nazi guard who participated in the mass murder of Jews during World War II has been deported from the United States to Austria. The former Nazi, Josias Kumpf, had immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and was living in the state of Wisconsin.
Investigators found that Kumpf had participated in a mass shooting in Poland in 1943. Roughly 8,000 Jews, including children, were killed in a single day. Kumpf stood guard while the victims were shot and was charged with shooting any survivors who attempted to escape.
Justice Department officials pushed for Kumpf's deportation, saying Kumpf “presided over and witnessed the torture and murder of helpless people.” Kumpf's presence assisted Nazis in perpetrating the massacre by discouraging escapees and controlling the victims, they said.
"His culpability in this atrocity does not diminish with the passage of time,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich.
Kumpf's attorneys argued that the 83-year-old had never played an active role in the atrocities. “He never laid a finger on anyone, he never shot at anyone,” said attorney Peter Rogers.
Kumpf said he was taken from his home in Yugoslavia as a 17-year-old and forced to serve as a guard. He also allegedly served as a guard at the Trawniki labor camp in Poland, at slave labor sites in France, and at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany as well as carrying out his role as a guard during the 1943 mass shooting.
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