Come on the guy is 81, for the love of god.

81-Year-Old Former SS Guard Loses AppealReport



Man stripped of citzenship over 60 years after serving in German army By Chris Bennett MILWAUKEE - An 81-year-old Caledonia man who served as a guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II has lost his appeal, clearing the way for his deportation. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Josias Kumpf, who came to the United States in 1956, broke the law when he did not disclose his work at the camps. It upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, who said Kumpf's citizenship should be revoked because it violated the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. That law says people who have persecuted others are not allowed to enter the country.Kumpf admitted, after a federal civil action was filed in 2003 seeking to revoke his citizenship, that he had stood guard at the perimeter of the Trawniki Training Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin. But he contended he was forced into the SS and feared he would be killed if he left. He also said he never hurt or killed anyone. In documents filed in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, the government claimed that Kumpf was a guard at Trawniki in November 1943, when German soldiers shot 7,000 prisoners. The prisoners were forced to strip naked and lie on the corpses of other prisoners before they were shot. Trucks with speakers played loud music to drown out the victims' screams. Kumpf also served at concentration camps at Majdanek, Buchenwald and Mittelbau. Kumpf, an ethnic German born in what was then Yugoslavia, said he was forced to enter the Waffen SS. German soldiers came to his village, took he and the other fit young men and put them in the Waffen SS. He had no choice; to refuse or to run was to be shot. Court records state simply that Kumpf "entered" the Waffen SS around Oct. 15, 1942. Kumpf said he was never ordered to shoot anybody. He said he never did. Kumpf said his job was to stand guard outside the electric fences that surrounded the concentration camps and to shoot any prisoners that made it over. None did, and he never shot a prisoner, he said. Kumpf said he arrived at Trawniki after the massacre. He saw the bodies piled in a mass grave. He only stayed there three or four days before he was shipped off to fight at the Eastern Front, where German armies battled Russians. That's where he was until the war ended. That's what Kumpf said he told the Justice Department investigators who came to his home in March 2003 to talk to him. He also told them nobody ever asked if he was in the Waffen SS when he came to the U.S. They asked if he had been in the Germany Army, and Kumpf said yes. Court records state, and Kumpf agreed, that he did not disclose his service to immigration authorities. The government also claimed that Kumpf's service in the Wehrmacht, the German army, made him ineligible for an immigration visa. The retired sausage maker came to the United States in 1956 from a Europe still reeling from World War II, and has been a U.S. citizen since 1964. He raised his family in Chicago and lived in Franksville with a daughter and son-in law. Since the Office of Special Investigations started investigating suspected Nazi war criminals in 1979, 73 people have been stripped of their citizenship. Fifty-nine people have been deported.