Loyalist
03-20-2009, 01:50 AM
The US has deported to Austria a former SS man it says was involved in the Nazi killing of some 8,000 Jews, shot in a single day and buried in pits.
Josias Kumpf, 83, left Austria in 1956, settled in Wisconsin and became a US citizen in 1964.
The US justice department sued to strip him of his citizenship in 2003.
Confirming the deportation, Vienna said he could not be prosecuted in Austria because the statute of limitations had expired in 1965.
"We repeatedly indicated it to the United States," justice ministry spokeswoman Katharina Swoboda told AFP news agency.
"Our hands are tied." (Continues)
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7953776.stm)
Josias Kumpf, 83, left Austria in 1956, settled in Wisconsin and became a US citizen in 1964.
The US justice department sued to strip him of his citizenship in 2003.
Confirming the deportation, Vienna said he could not be prosecuted in Austria because the statute of limitations had expired in 1965.
"We repeatedly indicated it to the United States," justice ministry spokeswoman Katharina Swoboda told AFP news agency.
"Our hands are tied." (Continues)
Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7953776.stm)