WASHINGTON - A FORMER Nazi concentration camp guard who served at death camps in Poland, France and Germany, has been deported from the US to Austria, US officials announced on Thursday.
The US Justice Department said it deported Josias Kumpf, 83, who worked as an armed SS guard at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany and at the Trawniki Labor Camp in Poland.
Mr Kumpf, who was born in Serbia, emigrated from Austria to America in 1956, acquired US citizenship in 1964, and settled in Racine, Wisconsin.
US officials said he took part in heinous acts during the Second World War that contributed to the death of thousands of civilians.
Prisoners under his watch at slave labor sites in Nazi-occupied France were forced to build launching platforms for German missile attacks on Britain.
While a guard at Trawniki, he participated in a November 3, 1943 mass shooting in which Jewish 8,000 men, women and children were murdered in a single day.
Mr Kumpf helped guard the prisoners - including approximately 400 children - who were shot and killed in pits at Trawniki.
According to Mr Kumpf, his assignment had been to shoot to kill any survivers.
'Josias Kumpf, by his own admission, stood guard with orders to shoot any surviving prisoners who attempted to escape an SS massacre that left thousands of Jews dead,' said Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita Glavin. -- AFP
