AP: Man Accused of Nazi Ties Loses Citizenship

[truthpusher]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/10742090.htm

Posted on Wed, Jan. 26, 2005

Man Accused of Nazi Ties Loses Citizenship

JAY LINDSAY

Associated Press

BOSTON - A federal judge Wednesday revoked the U.S. citizenship of a retired Massachusetts factory worker, ruling he lied when he claimed he wasn't involved in the Nazi destruction of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto in 1943.

Vladas Zajanckauskas, 89, denied that he was in Warsaw at the time and said his involvement with the Nazis was limited to working the bar at one of their camps in Poland.

But Justice Department prosecutors said he was recruited as a guard in a unit called the "Trawniki men" that helped the Nazis capture and kill Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. The Nazis killed thousands of Jews and burned down the ghetto, street by street, after the Jews resisted attempts to deport them to death camps.

Prosecutors asked the judge to revoke the Lithuania native's citizenship on the grounds that he lied on his visa application about his activity during the war.

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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/10742090.htm

[robbedvoter]

1. So, California has no governor now?

[smirkymonkey]

4. Beat me to it....

and by the way, what will America do without the Bush Crime Family?

[Lefty48197]

2. Does he have to move to a red state?

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[dqueue]

8. Nope, the bluest of the blue, in fact...

He has to move to that bastion of blue (90%, baby!), Washington, DC, as personal consultant to bushco...

[mdhunter]

3. Jesus, there's no statute of limitations on that!?

He was naturalized in 1956! So now, some 50 years later, the state decides to look into his record and strip him of his citizenship. That's a load of crap.

I understand that he's losing his citizenship based on filing fraudulent documents, not the alleged acts, per se, but still...

And, I should cynically add, it's not as if the U.S. hasn't before and doesn't now harbor known war criminals, international terrorists and former Nazi officials.

[theresistance]

6. And Operation Paperclip brought Nazis to America

See for example:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Operation_Paperclip_file.html

[bobthedrummer]

5. Gold Fillings, Auschwitz and George Bush

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushies.htm

[mitchum]

7. Good! To hell with all Nazis (and their little helpers)

[DELUSIONAL]

9. Oh hey -- SUPPORT THE TROOPS -- oops wrong war & wrong side

In 50 years will this be former US soldiers who served in Iraq and who knows where else.

Fallujah -- war crimes happened.

[solinvictus]

10. I'm honestly sick of this crap...

here, like with John Demjanjuk (spelling?), we have the full weight of the government chasing elderly Eastern Europeans for suspicion of aiding the wrong side during the war. My concept of due process involves some degree of speediness in the process; not waiting until sixty years after the fact and, ostensibly, when the majority of witnesses are dead. This is getting old and I'm so sick of the politicization of WW2 as applied to Eastern European immigrants in the USA.

[Colorado Blue]

11. Probably you would be less sick of it if you had lost your

relatives in the Holocaust.

Just a guess.

Peace.