US Deports Fomer Concentration Camp Guard Who Was Married to a Holocaust Survivor

[Tuckerfan]

One of the strangest stories I’ve read in a while.

Those who knew San Francisco’s Elfriede Rinkel never found it remarkable that the German immigrant would marry a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, or attend synagogue with him, or plan to be buried next to him at a cemetery run by a Chevra Kadisha, a Jewish burial society that performs ritual purification.

On Tuesday, though, came a jarring twist: The U.S. Justice Department said the 84-year-old Rinkel had been deported to Germany, nearly half a century after she emigrated to the United States, because she had been a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in World War II where an estimated 90,000 people, many of them Jews, were exterminated.

She doesn’t appear to be facing any charges in Germany.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

I’m baffled by Human motivations.

Mankind is opaque, a stone wall, a blank slate.

[Eve]

The side-splitting new comedy Mad About Jew, starring Anne Heche as a concentration camp guard who falls for Holocaust survivor Jason Alexander!

She’ll kill him–with love!