Posted on 10/21/2014 7:13:15 AM PDT by pabianice
This undated handout provided by the Justice Department shows Arthur Rudolph, one of hundreds of scientists brought to the US after World War II despite their Nazi past. An Associated Press investigation found dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced out of the United States.
An Associated Press investigation found that dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments, through a loophole in U.S. law, after being forced out of the United States.
Brief profiles of a few ex-Nazis getting benefits Since 1979, at least 38 of 66 suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards forced out of the United States collected millions of dollars in American Social Security payments, an Associated Press investigation has found.
OSIJEK, Croatia — Former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger lived the American dream.
His plastics company in the Rust Belt town of Akron, Ohio, thrived. By the late 1980s, he had acquired the trappings of success: a Cadillac DeVille and a Lincoln Town Car, a lakefront home, investments in oil and real estate.
Then the Nazi hunters showed up.
In 1989, as the U.S. government prepared to strip him of his citizenship, Denzinger packed a pair of suitcases and fled to Germany. Denzinger later settled in this pleasant town on the Drava River, where he lives comfortably, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers. He collects a Social Security payment of about $1,500 each month, nearly twice the take-home pay of an average Croatian worker.
Denzinger, 90, is among dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards who collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced out of the United States, an Associated Press investigation found.
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I think the definition of what are war criminals has changed in recent years. It used to refer to the higher ups, leaders, men of rank and authority. Decision makers and policy makers, party leaders and high ranking officers and government officials. If the definition now applies lowly camp guards then surely we could find hundreds of thousands of them in places like the former USSR, Communist China, North Korea, Cuba and other such places.
There are no major Nazi war criminals alive today that I am aware of.
Why are democrats so upset? They have no problem giving SS bennies to illegals and any of their cucaracha family members who are allowed to follow them in “to keep families together”. At least the Nazi scumbags earned the benefits by being here legally (at the time) and earning/paying taxes.
On one hand, I think it is a travesty that Nazis can game and exploit the system in the manner.
On the other hand, the youngest of them is in their 80s, including one who lives in a New York Penthouse and is openly spending his ill-gotten billions in turning America into something which would make Hitler proud.
At least the Nazis who are the subjects of this story had to leave America and are never permitted to return.
Plus, we are spending millions more to supply living expenses for younger jihadis whose views make Hitler look rational by comparison.
Saw this last night.The government,it appears,agreed to give these Nazis Social Security (which they may well have earned through contributions...just as you and I have) if they’d leave the country without a fight.
And regarding the general subject of Nazi war criminals...my basic attitude is that at least some,if not many,Germans who committed atrocities were draftees who were,*in fact*,”following orders” and failure to follow those orders would have resulted in *very* unpleasant consequences.IOW...to me,the lower the rank that a Nazi guard or soldier had the less culpable,morally at least,he/she was for whatever they might have done.
Then why did Germany go after Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who simply had no choice other than to be shot by the Germans if he didn’t serve as a guard in the Death Camp?
The definition of “war criminal” changes freely to keep the nazi hunters employed.
The war is over. The same benefits have been extended to muslims, VC, NORKS, and communists. What the heck is the difference? Muslims are far and away the worst and yet, we give these breeders of mass murderers and serial killers special treatment while hunting down some low-level grunt from a war that ended 60 years ago.
The whole “just following orders” defense was dismissed during the war crimes trials and not allowed as a defense. Also the Nazis were volunteers and not draftees. These people actually signed up to work in death camps. Most Germans also had no problem with the Nazis rounding up Jews and sending them off to their deaths. They didn’t think of them as “real” Germans.
I don’t remember the outcry when we paid Nazi’s to get us to the moon.
Sorry I don't have a strong opinion on the matter.
Van Brun, yes.
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