Immigration Law
DOJ Seeks to Oust Alleged Ex-Nazi From United States
Posted Jul 15, 2008, 04:40 pm CST
By Molly McDonough
Department of Justice officials have asked a federal court in Washington state to revoke the citizenship status of a man who the DOJ now believes was a Nazi police officer in German-occupied Belgrade, Serbia, during World War II.
The government claims Peter Enger, 86 of Bellevue, Wash., was a member of a unit responsible for the mass murder of 17,000 Serbian civilians, the Seattle Post Intelligencer's Seattle 911 blog reports.
Born in Yogoslavia, Engler is accused of serving in the Nazi unit between April 1941 and September 1943. For his first nine months of service, the DOJ alleges Engler was part of a unit that operated as an Einsatzgruppe, a Nazi mobile killing unit, according to a DOJ news release.
Among the allegations:
• Egner's unit participated in executing 11,164 individuals, most of them Serbian Jewish men.
• In early 1942, his unit carried out the murder of 6,280 Serbian Jewish women and children by way of asphyxiation in a specially equipped van.
Engler, who was reportedly reached by the AP and denied knowing anything about the DOJ complaint, has acknowledged he served as an interpreter and volunteered for his service and concealed that information when making his initial citizenship application, the DOJ maintains.
The release notes that since 1979 the DOJ's Office of Special Investigations it has won cases against 107 participants in Nazi persecution.
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Posted by George Blood - 4 months, 5 days, 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
If the DOJ can prove its case against Mr. Peter Egner, he certainly deserves to have his American citizenship revoked. The starvation, torture and murder of innocents by the Nazis in World War II is still worthy of uncompromising punishment. We can’t afford to forget that inhuman horror.
But wait, have we forgotten already? Is it not ironic, that the same DOJ advising the Bush Administration it’s OK to torture captives in American custody, is deporting people for similar crimes perpetrated by Nazis more than half century ago? Let’s hope those at the DOJ come to their senses. They need to hold accountable their own lawyers and other members of the administration, including those “deciders” at the top, for what appear to be blatant war crimes. America has prosecuted and executed many for war crimes now approved for America’s use by this DOJ and other members of the Bush Administration. Not holding our own accountable, demonstrates the truth of the biblical lesson about hypocrisy:
“Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.