Posted on 09/22/2006 8:11:06 AM PDT by Al Gator
The former SS guard kept her secret buried, even from her Jewish husband. Now exposed, the Bay Area widow, 83, is back in Germany.
WASHINGTON — She lived alone in a tiny, top-floor apartment in one of the tougher sections of San Francisco. At 83, she was short and a bit stout. Diabetes took the sight in one of her eyes; arthritis left her leaning heavily on a cane. For long trips, she took a taxi.
Her husband had died. He was the love of her long life, a short, dapper man who had worked as a bartender and waiter at some of the city's larger hotels and was active in Jewish activities. They buried him in a Jewish cemetery outside the city.
He had been gone just a short while when two officials from the Justice Department in Washington knocked on her door. They confronted her with a terrible secret that all these years she had managed to keep from him.
In Germany during World War II, a much younger Elfriede Lina Rinkel, then single, a girl with blue eyes and striking red hair, had worked as an SS guard at one of the Nazi regime's infamous concentration camps. Called Ravensbruck, it was a slave labor prison for women, and during the year she worked there with a trained attack dog more than 10,000 women died.
Some succumbed to starvation and disease. Others were gassed. More died after cruel medical experiments. Some perished from sheer exhaustion.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that the woman with the pleasant smile and the German accent had been deported to Germany. She admitted that she had lied on her U.S. visa application.
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You can try to reconcile this to your beliefs however you wish...
As for me...
It's one less ex-nazi in this country
It's one less liar
It's one less Buchanan voter.
It makes it right in MY book.
Okay, maybe I missed something, but could you give me a link to the "12 million illegals rioting in our streets"? Direct accessory to the death of 12 million Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and Russians - whether or not you like your busboys Hispanic - is a slightly more serious issue. I don't see how deporting a former Nazi is a national security drain.
I don't think they honored her, they do the slide show with the list of names of people who have died in the past year. When her name came up, there was no applause, it became very quiet.
Let her rot and die in her home country, then burn in hell with the rest of the Nazis.
Eisenstien died in the late 1940s before they had such an award but he's easily one of the three most important filmmakers of all time.
Probally very little. I would guess that when her husband died some paperwork was kicked up, and the NAZI's goose was cooked. Good riddance to her.
If we are to have legal immigrants, we have to boot the illegals. This is my point.
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Following his fourteenth birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was enrolled in the Hitler Youth; Membership being legally required after December 1936.[2] Ratzinger has stated he was an unenthusiastic member who refused to attend meetings. His father was a bitter enemy of Nazism, believing it conflicted with the Catholic faith. In 1941, one of Ratzinger's cousins, a child with Down syndrome, was killed by the Nazi regime in its campaign of eugenics[citation needed]. In 1943 while still in seminary, he was drafted at age 16 into the German anti-aircraft corps. Ratzinger then trained in the German infantry, but a subsequent illness precluded him from the usual rigors of military duty. As the Allied front drew closer to his post in 1945, he returned to his family's home in Traunstein after his unit had ceased to exist, just as American troops established their headquarters in the Ratzinger household. As a German soldier, he was put in a POW camp but was released a few months later at the end of the War in summer 1945. He re-entered the seminary, along with his brother Georg, in November of that year.
Following repatriation in 1945, the two brothers entered Saint Michael Seminary in Traunstein, later studying at the Ducal Georgianum (Herzogliches Georgianum) of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. They were both ordained on June 29, 1951 by Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber of Munich. Joseph Ratzinger's dissertation (1953) was on St. Augustine and was entitled "The People and the House of God in Augustine's Doctrine of the Church". His Habilitation (which qualified him for a professorship) was on Bonaventure. It was completed in 1957 and he became a professor of Freising College in 1958.
However, the topic of discussion was rocket engineers.
And yes, many documents are still sealed - but we do know who worked for US aeronautics programs and we do know that they went by their own names.
I agree. She should have spent the rest of her life in prison. She got off easy.
That's because the films that Wood made were terrible but the Tim Burton film about him was terrific as was Martin Landau in it who won an Oscar.
Eisenstein, propagandist that he was, did contribute significantly and apolitically, one might say, to film theory, like Stalinists Shostakovich and Simenon contributed to classical music and literature, respectively. What are you gonna do with people like that?
"Nice" lady who LIED on her paperwork to get into this country,
"Nice" lady who worked in a Nazi concentration camp ...
She could have given a million dollars to feed the poor and I'd still want her deported.
He still glorified one of the most brutal regimes that mankind has ever known.
My guess is you'd be a singing a different tune if your mother or grandmother had been at Ravensbruck menaced by the dog that this 'nice sweet lady' worked with. 10,000 women died there just during the time she worked there. Every single person who worked at the camp for the Nazis is complicit in those deaths.
How about the fact that she lied to get into the country? Are you in favor of disregarding that law too?
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