WASHINGTON. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Russia welcomes the United States' decision to deport Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, a German citizen and a former guard of a Nazi concentration camp, the Russian embassy to the U.S. said.
"We welcome the U.S. actions aimed at finding Nazi criminals. The decision on Berger's case shows that the atrocities of Hitlerite executioners and their accomplices have no statute of limitation," the embassy said on Twitter on Monday.
The embassy said this decision has special significance on the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
As reported earlier, a U.S. court ordered in February 2020 that Berger be removed from the country.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Monty Wilkinson said Berger's deportation "demonstrates the Department of Justice's and its law enforcement partners' commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses."
Berger has been the 70th Nazi persecutor removed from the U.S., the Justice Department said.