(Washington Post) Debbie Cenziper - U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca L. Holt in Memphis has ordered the deportation of longtime Tennessee resident and German citizen Friedrich Karl Berger, 94, who acknowledged having served as a guard at a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg in Germany during World War II. After the war, Berger emigrated from Germany to Canada with his wife and daughter, and came to the U.S. in 1959. Justice Department officials said Berger came to the U.S. legally; the federal law that barred the entry of people who assisted in Nazi persecution had expired in 1957. But Berger was ordered removed under a 1978 law, known as the Holtzman Amendment, that bars anyone who participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution from entering or living in the U.S. "This is an important step in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice," said former U.S. congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who pushed for the law. "We cannot forget as a nation, and this court decision shows that we are not forgetting."
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