Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Deported From US - Aircraft of World War II

syscom3 · 09-22-2007, 12:49 AM

Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Loses U.S. Citizenship, Departs
United States

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- A federal judge in
Washington, D.C., has entered an order revoking the U.S. citizenship
of Martin Hartmann for his role as an armed SS guard at the notorious
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany during World War II,
Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division
announced today.

Hartmann, 88, formerly of Mesa, Ariz., left the United States for
Germany prior to entry of the order and is permanently barred from
returning.

Hartmann was born in Romania, immigrated to the United States in 1955
and became a U.S. citizen in 1961. In a complaint filed with the U.S.
District Court in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2007, the Criminal
Division's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia alleged that Hartmann
joined the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Sachsenhausen in July
1943 and served with the Nazis until the end of the war. The
complaint further alleged that his wartime Nazi service rendered him
ineligible for a U.S. immigration visa and that he concealed that
service when he applied for a visa and later for U.S. citizenship.

"This result reflects the Justice Department's unwavering commitment
to ensuring that those who helped the Nazi regime carry out its
genocidal plans find no sanctuary in America," said Assistant
Attorney General Fisher.

In a settlement agreement reached last month and filed on September
17, 2007, Hartmann admitted that he served in the SS Death's Head
Guard Battalion at the Sachsenhausen camp during World War II, and he
acknowledged that by serving as an armed SS guard of civilian
prisoners he personally assisted in Nazi-directed persecution.
Hartmann also consented to the entry of a court order revoking his
U.S. citizenship entered today by U.S. District Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan. Accordingly, he agreed to depart the U.S. permanently by
Aug. 31, 2007, and he acknowledged that he would be ineligible to
reenter the United States following denaturalization.

Prisoners at Sachsenhausen were confined under inhumane conditions
and were subjected to grueling slave labor, physical and emotional
abuse, horrific medical experimentation, torture and execution.
During the period of Hartmann's service there, thousands of
Sachsenhausen prisoners died of starvation, disease, exhaustion or
outright murder. The complaint alleges that by performing armed SS
guard service at the Sachsenhausen camp and its subcamps, and by
preventing prisoners from escaping those places of torment and death,
Hartmann personally assisted the Nazi government of Germany in
persecuting persons because of their race, religion, national origin
or political opinion.

"Martin Hartmann and other members of the SS Death's Head Guard
Battalion were indispensable accomplices in the brutal crimes
committed in the Nazi concentration camp system," said OSI Director
Eli M. Rosenbaum.

The Hartmann investigation was led by OSI trial attorneys Stephen
Paskey and Edgar Chen and is a result of OSI's ongoing efforts to
identify, investigate, and take legal action against former
participants in Nazi persecution who reside in the United States.
Since OSI began operations in 1979, it has won cases against 106
individuals who assisted in Nazi-sponsored persecution. In addition,
180 suspected Axis persecutors who sought to enter the United States
in recent years have been stopped at U.S. ports of entry and barred
from entering the country as a result of OSI's "Watchlist" program,
which is enforced in cooperation with the Department of Homeland
Security.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice

Konigstiger205 · 09-22-2007, 04:27 AM

Another one bites the dust...

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 09-22-2007, 08:05 AM

Hopefully the Germans will put him on trial as well.

evangilder · 09-22-2007, 10:32 AM

Good. It's nice to know that even today, people that did these things still have to watch over their shoulder because they are still being pursued.

Nonskimmer · 09-22-2007, 11:02 AM

It'd be interesting to know where a lot of these guys ended up after the war. It goes to show that even the nice old guy you drink coffee with at the bus stop every morning, or perhaps your best friend's grandfather could possibly have been a concentration camp guard. You never really know.

Anyway, I'm glad that people aren't forgetting, even 60+ years on.

ToughOmbre · 09-22-2007, 11:32 AM

In a few more years, thankfully, they'll all be dead.

And even then, we should never forget

TO

mkloby · 09-22-2007, 10:35 PM

Worse yet - I would fear being these individuals on judgement day.

Maharg · 09-23-2007, 01:54 AM

You can run, but you can't hide.
I hope the mongrel suffers in his old age.

09-22-2007, 12:49 AM	#1
syscom3 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 10,283	Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Deported From US Former Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Loses U.S. Citizenship, Departs United States WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has entered an order revoking the U.S. citizenship of Martin Hartmann for his role as an armed SS guard at the notorious Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Nazi Germany during World War II, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. Hartmann, 88, formerly of Mesa, Ariz., left the United States for Germany prior to entry of the order and is permanently barred from returning. Hartmann was born in Romania, immigrated to the United States in 1955 and became a U.S. citizen in 1961. In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2007, the Criminal Division's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia alleged that Hartmann joined the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Sachsenhausen in July 1943 and served with the Nazis until the end of the war. The complaint further alleged that his wartime Nazi service rendered him ineligible for a U.S. immigration visa and that he concealed that service when he applied for a visa and later for U.S. citizenship. "This result reflects the Justice Department's unwavering commitment to ensuring that those who helped the Nazi regime carry out its genocidal plans find no sanctuary in America," said Assistant Attorney General Fisher. In a settlement agreement reached last month and filed on September 17, 2007, Hartmann admitted that he served in the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at the Sachsenhausen camp during World War II, and he acknowledged that by serving as an armed SS guard of civilian prisoners he personally assisted in Nazi-directed persecution. Hartmann also consented to the entry of a court order revoking his U.S. citizenship entered today by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. Accordingly, he agreed to depart the U.S. permanently by Aug. 31, 2007, and he acknowledged that he would be ineligible to reenter the United States following denaturalization. Prisoners at Sachsenhausen were confined under inhumane conditions and were subjected to grueling slave labor, physical and emotional abuse, horrific medical experimentation, torture and execution. During the period of Hartmann's service there, thousands of Sachsenhausen prisoners died of starvation, disease, exhaustion or outright murder. The complaint alleges that by performing armed SS guard service at the Sachsenhausen camp and its subcamps, and by preventing prisoners from escaping those places of torment and death, Hartmann personally assisted the Nazi government of Germany in persecuting persons because of their race, religion, national origin or political opinion. "Martin Hartmann and other members of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion were indispensable accomplices in the brutal crimes committed in the Nazi concentration camp system," said OSI Director Eli M. Rosenbaum. The Hartmann investigation was led by OSI trial attorneys Stephen Paskey and Edgar Chen and is a result of OSI's ongoing efforts to identify, investigate, and take legal action against former participants in Nazi persecution who reside in the United States. Since OSI began operations in 1979, it has won cases against 106 individuals who assisted in Nazi-sponsored persecution. In addition, 180 suspected Axis persecutors who sought to enter the United States in recent years have been stopped at U.S. ports of entry and barred from entering the country as a result of OSI's "Watchlist" program, which is enforced in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security. Source: U.S. Department of Justice __________________ "Pilot to copilot..... what are those mountain goats doing up here in the clouds?"

09-22-2007, 04:27 AM	#2
Konigstiger205 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bucharest Posts: 907	Another one bites the dust... __________________ These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper."Henri Coanda"

09-22-2007, 08:05 AM	#3
DerAdlerIstGelandet Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany Posts: 33,152	Hopefully the Germans will put him on trial as well. __________________ fly boy:"isnt that the first jet bomber becasue i have flown one in a flight sim before and i know how it handles"[/I]

09-22-2007, 10:32 AM	#4
evangilder "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA Posts: 14,809	Good. It's nice to know that even today, people that did these things still have to watch over their shoulder because they are still being pursued. __________________ http://www.vg-photo.com For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo Da Vinci

09-22-2007, 11:32 AM	#6
ToughOmbre Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 3,233	In a few more years, thankfully, they'll all be dead. And even then, we should never forget TO __________________ *“Let's get Enterprise* and Hornet turned into the wind."**

09-22-2007, 11:02 AM	#5
Nonskimmer Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 8,871	It'd be interesting to know where a lot of these guys ended up after the war. It goes to show that even the nice old guy you drink coffee with at the bus stop every morning, or perhaps your best friend's grandfather could possibly have been a concentration camp guard. You never really know. Anyway, I'm glad that people aren't forgetting, even 60+ years on.

09-22-2007, 10:35 PM	#7
mkloby Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, NC Posts: 3,562	Worse yet - I would fear being these individuals on judgement day. __________________ If the Army and the Navy ever look on heaven's scenes, they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines

09-23-2007, 01:54 AM	#8
Maharg Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 208	You can run, but you can't hide. I hope the mongrel suffers in his old age.

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