Waterloo Region man stripped of citizenship for fourth time
Posted Jul 26, 2017 06:44:00 AM.
Last Updated Jul 26, 2017 07:30:37 AM.
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A Waterloo Region man has been stripped of his Canadian citizenship for the fourth time.
93-year-old, Helmut Oberlander has been the focus of government efforts since the mid 1990s for serving in a Nazi death squad and lying about it to get into Canada.
Oberlander has long maintained he did not take part in war crimes and only served as a low-level interpreter.
Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, says “We thank and applaud the Government of Canada for again stripping Oberlander of his citizenship.
The legal facts in this case are not in dispute: Oberlander was a member of a savage Nazi unit that murdered more than 90,000 Jews in the Holocaust.”
Today’s Record reports, Oberlander wants a judicial review of the government’s decision.
A hearing for that request is not expected until later this year or early 2018.
