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U.S. Deports Nazi Concentration Camp Guard To Germany

By NPR News February 20, 2021

Friedrich Karl Berger, in a 1959 photo. A court found that he helped guard prisoners when they were forced to evacuate a Nazi concentration camp in a nearly two-week trip under "inhumane conditions," the Justice Department said. Courtesy Department of Justice

Friedrich Karl Berger was sent to Germany because he participated in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at the Neuengamme concentration camp system near Meppen, Germany, in 1945, according to the announcement.Read More

StoryCorps Northwest: ‘Hardest Thing To Be Is A Black Person’ Says Jewish Woman Who Hid In Attic

By Sueann Ramella December 23, 2020

Step-daugher Robin with her step-mother, Evelyn Woods

When Spokane resident Evelyn Woods was a little girl in World War II Germany, she hid in an attic with her Jewish parents. In today’s StoryCorps Northwest, Evelyn’s step-daughter, Robin, asks her how that confinement compares to today’s COVID-19 restrictions. Evelyn, 82, discusses that and the Black Lives Matter movement in this segment of StoryCorps Northwest recorded Read More

U.S. Deports Nazi Concentration Camp Guard To Germany

StoryCorps Northwest: ‘Hardest Thing To Be Is A Black Person’ Says Jewish Woman Who Hid In Attic

Soprano Julia Bullock Is A Classical Music ‘Agent Of Change’ And A Tiny Desk (Home) Performer

Where Are The Thousands Of Nazi-Looted Musical Instruments?

Defense Secretary Esper Says U.S. Plans To Cut Troops In Germany By A Third

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