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Former Neuengamme concentration camp
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The USA extradited the former concentration camp guard Friedrich Karl Berger to Germany.
According to SPIEGEL information, an ambulance jet was hired for the transfer of the 95-year-old from Tennessee to Germany and is expected in Frankfurt on Saturday morning.
According to information from judicial circles, Berger is to be questioned by German investigators at the airport because the Celle Public Prosecutor's Office is seeking a trial against him.
The fate of Berger had long been contested.
According to the US judiciary, Berger was employed as a security guard in a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg near Meppen in Lower Saxony and was therefore an "active participant in one of the darkest chapters in human history".
Berger had moved to Tennessee in 1959, but continued to draw his German pension for years.
At the end of last year, the US authorities rejected all of Berger's petitions against his extradition to Germany and instead emphasized that war criminals were not being offered any protection in the US.
Berger had admitted his role as a guard against US agencies, but at that time he only carried out the orders of his superiors.
"I was 19 years old," he said at a court case, "I was ordered to go there."
Berger had lived in the USA for years without being recognized.
His role in the Nazi system of repression was only clarified when index cards were found in a sunken ship in the Baltic Sea.
More than 2,000 documents relating to guards and other personnel who worked in concentration camps were recovered from the wreck.
The reason for the deportation of Berger by the USA states that Jews, Poles, Russians, Danes, Dutch, French and political prisoners were detained under "horrific" conditions in the subcamp of the concentration camp Death "have to work.
Whether Berger, who should be in good health according to his age, will go to court for his crimes during the Nazi era in Germany has not yet been finally decided.
The Cell Senior Public Prosecutor is currently prosecuting for an accessory to murder and has also applied for Berger's extradition to the United States.
The investigators only want to decide after his arrival in Germany whether he will be charged.
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