LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. officials moved Monday to deport an 85-year-old Georgia man who hid his work as a concentration camp guard when entering the country after World War II.
The U.S. Justice Department initiated deportation proceedings against Paul Henss of Lawrenceville, who is still a German citizen. Prosecutors said Henss was a dog handler at Dachau and Buchenwald, two of the most notorious German concentration camps during World War II, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
"The brutal concentration camp system could not have functioned without the determined efforts of SS men such as Paul Henss, who, with a vicious attack dog, stood between these victims and the possibility of freedom," said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the office of special investigations.
Henss lives with his wife Else in an Atlanta suburb. He told reporters outside his home Monday he did not know what was going on in the camps when he worked there.
"That was in 1942," he said. "I didn't know what they were doing with the people."
