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Group urges prosecution of 83-year-old Nazi

BERLIN - An 83-year-old German woman deported from the United States for concealing her Nazi past as a concentration camp guard is a war criminal and should be prosecuted, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Thursday.

Efraim Zuroff, head of the agency that tracks Nazis, said that U.S. authorities deserved praise for their diligence in finding Elfriede Lina Rinkel, who reportedly never told her late husband, a concentration camp survivor, of her past.

The U.S. Justice Department said this week Rinkel, who went to the United States in 1959, admitted she had served as a guard at the Ravensbruck concentration camp for women north of Berlin for the last 10 months of World War Two. She was deported to Germany earlier this month.
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