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Deported Ex-Nazi Goes Free in Austria

Concentration camp guard can't be prosecuted there

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 20, 2009 12:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Austria says there’s no way it can prosecute Josias Kumpf, the 83-year-old ex-Nazi guard the US shipped its way yesterday, Reuters reports. “We have always pointed out to the United States that he cannot be charged here,” said an Austrian justice ministry...   Read full story »

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