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About Martin Bartesch
- Martin Bartesch (October 16, 1926 – December 1989) was a member of the Prinz Eugen Division of the SS.
- From 1943 to 1944, he served as a guard at Mauthausen concentration camp.
- On October 23, 1943, he shot and killed Gottfried Ochshorn when Ochshorn attempted to escape.Bartesch emigrated to the United States in 1955 and was granted citizenship in 1966.
- In May 1987, the U.S.
- Office of Special Investigations found a record stating that Bartesch had killed a prisoner while serving as a guard, which he had not mentioned on his immigration forms.
- Bartesch, then 61 years old and employed as a janitor in Chicago, was stripped of his U.S.
- citizenship and deported to Austria, on the grounds that he had lied by failing to disclose this information.
- Austrian government officials allegedly received little notice that Bartesch was being deported, and claimed that the U.S had violated international law in doing so.
- Austrian authorities reportedly declared Bartesch "undesirable" and demanded that the United States take him back.
- When the U.S.
- Justice Department stated that Bartesch would not be allowed to return, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Blecha issued a warrant for Bartesch's arrest.Bartesch was released when it was found that the statute of limitations (which was in place due to his being a minor when the crime was committed) had expired.
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