An admitted SS guard at the Mauthausen death camp during World War II has been ordered deported to Britain from the United States, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Alexander Schweidler, 71, a resident of Inverness, Fla., was given until Feb. 1 to leave the country.
The Justice Department charged that Schweidler, a British subject born in Slovakia, fatally shot two Soviet prisoners of war at the Mauthausen camp in Austria in April 1942.
Schweidler did not admit killing the Soviet prisoners. But he signed an agreement with the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations admitting he had been an armed SS guard at Mauthausen. He also admitted he is deportable because he persecuted civilians on the basis of race, religion, national origin or political opinion.
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