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Stephen Paskey (argued), Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Peter M. Rogers (argued), R...
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MADRID - A Spanish judge on Thursday indicted three alleged ex- Nazi death camp guards who all lived for many years in the United States, charging them with being accessories to genocide and crimes against humanity.
Judge Ismael Moreno of the National Court issued international arrest warrants for Johann Leprich, Anton Tittjung and Josias Kumpf. The 18-page indictment says Kumpf apparently now lives in Austria and the other two are still in the United States.
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A retired sausage maker living in Wisconsin will be deported because he was a member of the Nazi SS, according to an immigration appeals board.
Josias Kumpf, 83, was a member of the SS Death's Head guard at a labor camp in Poland when thousands of Jews were massacred during World War II.
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A former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived in Caledonia and was stripped of his U.S. citizenship after his participation in Nazi acts of persecution was uncovered has been deported to Austria, U.S. officials announced Thursday.
The deportation of Josias Kumpf, 83, who served as an armed guard at a concentration camp in Germany and a labor camp in Poland, was announced by Rita M. Glavin, acting assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department and John P. Torres, acting assistant secretary of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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An 80-year-old Racine County man who has lived in the Midwest for nearly 50 years has been stripped of U.S. citizenship for his service as a guard at Nazi concentration camps.
A federal judge this week revoked the citizenship of Josias Kumpf on the grounds that it was granted in violation of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, a law that barred people who had "personally advocated or assisted persecution" from entering the country. He may now be deported.
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WASHINGTON, July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have asked a federal immigration judge in Chicago to deport a Wisconsin man who admitted performing SS guard service during a Nazi mass killing operation in occupied Poland in 1943, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
In a charging document filed with the immigration court, the government asserts that Josias Kumpf, 81, of Racine, Wis., served as an armed SS Death's Head guard at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany; at the Trawniki SS Labor Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where 8,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in a single day as part of a mass murder operation involving 42,000 victims at three camps; and at cons...
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The deportation of an 83-year-old Caledonia man who was a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II was upheld Monday by the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, D.C.
Josias Kumpf participated in a 1943 Nazi operation that resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent victims," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich, who announced the decision in Washington. "His culpability in this atrocity does not diminish with the passage of time.
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Afghanistan: Italy out?
KABUL -- A powerful suicide bomb that killed six Italian soldiers here on Thursday prompted Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy to declare that his nation had begun planning to "bring our young men home as soon as possible.
... for Johann Leprich, Anton Tittjung and Josias Kumpf. The 18-page indictment says Kumpf apparentl...
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An elderly Racine County man who served as an armed Nazi SS guard became a U.S. citizen illegally and should be deported, an immigration judge in Chicago has ruled.
Josias Kumpf, 82, of Caledonia admitted to investigators in 2003 that he served as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin and at Trawniki training and labor camps in Nazi- occupied Poland, according to court records.
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The U.S. government has won 105 cases against former Nazis. Cases are pending against 16 others, including Anton Geiser, of Sharon in Mercer County. Here are examples of cases the government won and the defendants' status:
Algimantas Dailide, 86
...Kalymon denies the accusation. Josias Kumpf, 81. The Caledonia, Wisc., man was denatural...