Nazi hunters have tracked a suspected World War II concentration camp guard to Lawrenceville. Members of the Justice Department's elite Nazi tracking force said Paul Henss, 85, served as a prison guard and attack dog handler at the notorious Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany. The Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security have asked an immigration judge in Atlanta to deport Henss. Officials said Henns entered the United States in 1955 after concealing his concentration camp service. The document says Henss admitted on March 13 that he served as an SS guard at Dachau and Buchenwald for two to three months each as a dog handler. Paperwork filed by the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Henss joined the Hitler Youth organization in Germany in 1934 as a 12 or 13-year-old boy and joined the Nazi Party in September 1940. In early 1941, Henss volunteered to serve in the Waffen SS and became an SS dog handler in 1942 after serving in the elite Waffen SS combat unit “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.” Investigators also said that Henss taught other concentration camp guards at Dachau and Buchwenwald how to use attack dogs to guard prisoners and prevent their escape. Henss himself is also accused of personally guarding prisoners and labor details with an attack dog. “Hundreds of thousands of persons were confined under horrific conditions at Dachau and Buchenwald on the basis of their race, religion, national origin or political opinion,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division in a release. “By commencing these proceedings against a man who participated in the victimization of those who were interned there, the Justice Department continues to make good on its pledge to ensure that the United States does not become a sanctuary for human rights violators.” “The SS committed mass murder at Dachau and Buchenwald and subjected thousands of inmates to slave labor, starvation, grotesque medical experimentation, and torture,” said OSI Director Eli M. Rosenbaum, whose office investigated the case. “The brutal concentration camp system could not have functioned without the determined efforts of SS men such as Paul Henss, who, with a vicious attack dog, stood between these victims and the possibility of freedom.” The case against Henss is the first case in Georgia that the Office of Special Investigation has handled, said Jaclyn Lesch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. No court date has been set for Henss, she said. Suspected Nazi War Criminal Found In Metro Atlanta - News Story - WSB Atlanta Now what I do not understand is that he admitted upon entry to the US that he was a guard at Dachau as a dog trainer. So what is the issue? If he did not lie and was allowed in..............or am I reading this wrong?
It's probably just the way it's written. 'Henss admitted his guard service to investigators in March, the document said. He was not available for comment. Henss hid his wartime activities when he moved to the United States in 1955, the Justice Department said.' Ex-Nazi prison guard faces deportation from U.S - Yahoo! News
The Dallas Morning News reflects: Henss denied being in the ramps or being a war criminal! Feds seek to deport man accused of Nazi service LAWRENCEVILLE. Ga. -- Federal authorities have begun deportation proceedings against an 85-year-old suburban Atlanta man who they say served as a Nazi guard and trained and handled attack dogs at the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Paul Henss, a German citizen, is accused of entering the U.S. in 1955 after hiding his concentration camp service. Mr. Henss acknowledged training dogs to guard prisoners, but denied being in the camps or being a war criminal. Nazi regulations during Mr. Henss time of service said dogs were to be trained to “bite with without mercy," an immigration document in the case says. “I didn’t commit no crimes,” Mr. Henss said. He called the Holocaust “a catastrophe.”
Thanks Kai. I wonder what will happen in Germany. Are the Germans interested in putting him on trial?
No matter, he didnt do anything? Did he? Just becasue he was a guard? Did he let the dogs chew on people and laugh and take pictures? If he had then try him, but just a guard..... ahhhhhhhhhhh can we find something better to worry about? What about that there list that someone posted about doctors and real bad guys from the concentration camps go get them.
Unfortunatetly, yes. Germany still has a heel on her head.Stinks that Americans get deported in so many cases.tikilal is on track about the just being a guard. The doctors, scientists etc. made out ok. They got good jobs here and abroad. Elite nazi tracking force?
Here is a quote from the man himself....... "I didn't know what they were doing with these people," he said. I don't know about you but I am not that naive! Victims of both of these camps were being burned every day, he knew what was happening, he was a member of the Waffen SS!! Also the “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.” To say that you didn't know that the people there were being cremated is absolutely ludicrous, as we know from Allied soldiers accounts of an awful smell that drifted as much as 15 miles away from the camps. As for the OSI being an elite nazi tracking force! Absolutely, and then some! These people need to pay for what they did. If you don't face your past, your future is doomed!
You know, today 60 something years after these events happened stuff like this no longer strikes me as justice, just pure revenge. Yes, this guy did terrible things long ago but he has had to live with his ghosts torrmenting him all these years. Let the guy go peacefully because he hasn't long left. Also, why put his family through this so long after it happened. Show some compassion that he didn't and prove the world has become a better place. I'm surely no Nazi sympathizer. I ride Germany pretty hard for many things done in WW 2. But, this is just wrong so long after these events happened. I could see it if he were a commanding officer or some other high ranking functionary. But just some shmoe doing his job however vile it was? Its time to stop hunting down the little guys involved in this. Revenge serves no good purpose. That is why statutes of limitations are in place, along with pardons.
