- Elfriede Rinkel
Elfriede Rinkel (born
July 14 ,1922 inLeipzig ,Germany as Elfriede Huth) was a guard at theRavensbrück concentration camp near Berlin.She worked at the camp from June of 1944 until April 1945 handling an
SS -trained guard dog. She claims that she did not use her dog as a weapon against prisoners, and that she did not join the Nazi party.She left Germany for the
United States and was admitted as an immigrant on or aroundSeptember 21 1959 inSan Francisco, California . At a German-American Club in San Francisco she met German Jew Fred William Rinkel and they married. He died in 2004 and probably never learned of her past.On
September 1 2006 Elfriede Rinkel was deported to Germany under a settlement agreement signed in June 2006 after being charged by a federal law requiring removal of aliens who took part in acts of Nazi-sponsored persecution filed by the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and theUnited States Department of Homeland Security 's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).References
* http://www.orovillemr.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=4363180
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5366680.stm BBC]
* [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060921&slug=nazi21 Seattle Times]
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