Berlin, Feb 20 (EFE) .- A 95-year-old former guard of the Neuengamme Nazi concentration camp landed today in Frankfurt aboard a medicalized plane from the United States, a country in which he lived in exile for decades and now has extradited.
Upon his arrival, Friedrich Kar Berger was handed over by the German federal police to officers from the Regional Criminal Investigation Office (LKA) in Hesse for testimony.
The nonagenarian is accused of complicity in murder in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he served as a guard at the camp in which the prisoners were held under horrible conditions and forced in the winter of 1945 to perform forced labor in the open until their death or exhaustion.
Before the US authorities, Berger confessed to having worked as a guard in an annex of the Neuengamme concentration camp near the town of Meppen, next to the border with the Netherlands, although he said that he had not been aware of the torture of the prisoners or the fatalities .
Berger moved in 1959 to the American state of Tennessee, where for years he lived without being recognized.
The discovery of files from the Nazi period on a sunken ship in the Baltic Sea led investigators on the trail of the former guard.
According to “Spiegel”, it is unlikely that Berger will have to appear in court, since the process opened against him by the Celle General Prosecutor’s Office for complicity in murder had to be suspended for lack of evidence, as reported by the attorney itself. institution last December.
And according to Justice sources, the process could only be resumed in the event of new evidence against Berger, for example, if the defendant himself incriminates himself during the interrogation, which is not to be expected.
Neuengamme was between 1938 and 1945 the largest concentration camp in northwestern Germany.
More than 100,000 people from all over Europe were interned in this camp and in its more than 85 annexes, where nearly 43,000 prisoners lost their lives. EFE
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