Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson said in a statement 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."
As a Jewish American, this statement would hold a lot more weight with me if we hadn't waited 'til 1979(!) to create the DOJ's Nazi-finding office & then slowly found & deported extremely old men who'd already lived very safe & full lives in the U.S. after having been young enough to barely even qualify for drafting into low-level military service at the war's end in the 1st place. Compare that to the Nazi's volunteer rocket scientists, all of whom (or, at least, all of those whom the Soviets didn't scoop up before us) got free passes from us. Good ol' America: often doing the right(?) thing only when it's no longer beneficial for us not to do so.
The skit at the beginning of Atun Shei Film's episode on Nazi Archeology comes to mind.
