'Nice, Sweet Lady,' 83, Deported for Nazi Past

The former SS guard kept her secret buried, even from her Jewish husband. Now exposed, the Bay Area widow, 83, is back in Germany.

In Germany during World War II, a much younger Elfriede Lina Rinkel, then single, a girl with blue eyes and striking red hair, had worked as an SS guard at one of the Nazi regime's infamous concentration camps. Called Ravensbruck, it was a slave labor prison for women, and during the year she worked there with a trained attack dog more than 10,000 women died.

She was given until Sept. 30 to leave the United States.

She left Sept. 1. Some distant relative took her in, and she dutifully reported to the U.S. Consulate office in Frankfurt that she was back home.

Eighty-three is a hard time to make one's life over, and Dixon said that she could still face charges in Germany for her wartime duty at the concentration camp.

But whatever happens, she will probably die in the land of her birth.

Alive, she is legally barred from reentering the United States.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationwo...ycnews-utility

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WOW a jewish husband........how did that come about?

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

thats pretty crazy, but not all people serving under the nazis, or even the SS had to hate jews...

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

Not sure that I would agree with you on that one Fortune, maybe if you were in the German army, but you would certainly in the SS.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

People go through traumatic times.
People change.
People are people.
I can't see that part of the story as especially surprising, Isn't the more interesting aspect from an ethical, social or even WW2 point of view an 83 year old woman being deported after 60 years? I can't really answer whether that's right or wrong, I don't feel like opening cans of worms over this but it is yet another one of the surprising number of tiny, tragic, stories that still emerge connected to this conflict we're all so interested in.
Cheers,
Adam.

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It's only the Internet.

Well said von

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler