Deported By U.S., Accused Nazi Gets Royal Treatment
The scandal began on April 3 with a phone call to the office of social assistance in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg. Someone inquired about welfare for a man by the name of Josias Kumpf who had just returned home from the United States. The officials did some research and hastily informed the regional director for domestic security, Elmar Marent.
However, he noted that neither"penal nor administrative grounds" exist to"warrant police action." According to Marent, under Austrian law, the fact that he is a presumed mass murderer is barred from consideration under Austria's statute of limitations. Moreover, Kumpf was still a minor at the time, initially 17 or 18 years old. The Serbian-born Kumpf - like Demjanjuk - is reported to have stood in the ranks of the SS as a so-called Trawniki-man [The Polish city of Trawniki is where guards were trained for Operation Reinhard - the annihilation of Poland's Jews]. For example, at the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. Kumpf is accused of crimes in Poland and France, as well as Trawniki itself. He's reported to have been involved in the executions of 8,000 men, women, and children. When questioned by U.S. interrogators, he confessed that he,"kept watch to make sure that those who weren't completely dead or were still twitching didn't climb out of the pit."
Kumpf lived for weeks in a home in Lochau on Lake Constance. Then on April 24, Kumpf’s relative parked the 83-year-old in a wheelchair in front of the Bregenz regional hospital. In need of care, Kumpf was treated and transferred to Rankweil on May 18. Then on the night of June 6, Caritas [a charity organization] transported Kumpf to Vienna and quartered the suspected murderer in a high-end apartment in Döbling [a prosperous area of the city] - with a rent of €1000 [$1400] a month and 24-hour care.