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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7008190.stm

A man who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp ended up living next door to a former Nazi camp guard in Arizona, US, it has emerged.

Nathan Gasch said when Martin Hartmann moved into the retirement complex four years ago he noticed a picture of his neighbour in an SS uniform on the wall.

Mr Gasch says he was shocked but that he never reported the incident.

However, investigators from the justice department were on Mr Hartmann's trail and this week the US expelled him.

Romanian-born Mr Hartmann, 88, was forced to move back to Germany last month and stripped of his US citizenship.
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The truth about his past was uncovered in a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a department created in 1979 to pursue war criminals.

Mr Gasch still bears the tattooed number on his left arm which marked him out as a concentration camp prisoner six decades before.

"They must have seen I had my number," Mr Gasch said, adding that though he was shocked about Mr Hartmann being forced to leave he is not sorry.

"He was one of them," he said.
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I like the quote at the end, is very direct
 
Seems a little unfair to Mr. Nazi, seeing as he'll probably die soon.
 
I have no sympathy whatsoever for Hartmann.
 
soulslicer said:
that is totally unfair..
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If by "that" you meant this, then yeah, I agree.
 
I think it's fair to say if you were a concentration camp guard in the Death's Head division of the SS, you weren't exactly a conscientious objector.

edit: also when you ask for an American visa, it asks you specifically if you were involving in Nazi War crimes up to 1945.
If you answer yes, the next question is: know anything about rockets?
 
If you were in the SS, you ENJOYED the idea of murdering people. No sympathy for Hartmann please. It's not needed. Also notice he put up a picture of himself in his uniform? That means he still believes in what he did as being right.


And besides, he legally should be put in jail for war crimes.
 
Surprising Germany wants to take him back.
 
kirovman said:
I think it's fair to say if you were a concentration camp guard in the Death's Head division of the SS, you weren't exactly a conscientious objector.
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We have a winner.

Also, this guy deserves to be deported. And he's getting off light at that.
 
Godron said:
The guy had a picture of himself in SS uniform on the wall.
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That was my next point. Besides which, uhh, he was living next to a holocaust victim. Unnerving, much?

Anyway, whether you feel sorry for mr. nazi or not, the fact remains that it's the law and he entered the country illegally. Nobody's fault but his own.
 
Sad for both parties - but I guess Hartman didn't move on, still held the SS in high regard.
 
Sloth said:
Sad for both parties - but I guess Hartman didn't move on, still held the SS in high regard.
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I wonder if most of the SS would have been perfectly normal, healthy people if it wasn't for Hitler... oh well. I suppose the fact is that they are assholes now; maybe arguing about whether that's their fault or not is pointless.
 
Ex-concentration camp guards deserve everything they get.

I don't think much of ex Nazi-soldiers much either.
 
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