A former concentration camp guard who lied about his past to gain entry into Canada in the 1950s died in June, a Canadian newspaper revealed last week. Michael Baumgartner, 83, a retired autoworker in Windsor, had been a Waffen SS guard at Stutthof and Sachensenhausen camps.
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