Martin Bartesch
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Martin Bartesch was a former SS guard who served at the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943 to 1944.[1] He emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 and was granted citizenship in 1966.[1] On 23 October 1943, he shot and killed Gottfried Ochshorn during an escape attempt, according to documentation discovered by the U.S. Office of Special Investigations, or OSI. In May 1987, Bartesch, then 61 years old, was employed as a janitor in Chicago when the U.S. denaturalized him, but allowed him to avoid legal proceedings by deporting him to Austria.[1] An article in the January 19, 2007 edition of the New York Sun claimed that, in 1987, former President Jimmy Carter forwarded a letter he had received from Bartesch's daughter to the OSI, adding a handwritten note that stated "I hope that, in cases like this, that special consideration can be given to affected families for humanitarian reasons."[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Pike, David Wingeate (2000). Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube. Routledge (UK), 384. ISBN 0415227801.
- ^ Freedman, Daniel. "President Carter Interceded on Behalf of Former Nazi Guard", The New York Sun, 2007-01-19. Retrieved on January 19, 2007.
