95-year-old former Nazi camp guard returns to Germany after US deportation
- Friedrich Karl Berger was expelled for serving as a guard at a satellite concentration camp of the Neuengamme network in 1945
- German police said there is no live investigation linked to him and he has not been taken in custody
The 95-year-old man faces questioning by local police after arriving at Frankfurt airport. He was not arrested. US Justice Department officials have named him as Friedrich Karl Berger, while Germany authorities refer to him only as Friedrich Karl B.
A US court last year ruled that Berger should be expelled after prosecutors in the northern German town of Celle opened an investigation into whether he was involved with the murder of prisoners at a satellite concentration camp of the Neuengamme network near Hamburg in 1945.
According to German prosecutors B., who has lived in the US since 1959, admitted to guarding prisoners for a few weeks in the Meppen area close to the Dutch border without witnessing any killings or abuse of prisoners.
The German case against him was dropped in December after prosecutors were unable to dispute his account.