Posted on 05/02/2005 6:04:33 PM PDT by Boston Blackie
An 86-year-old Nazi collaborator who owned a New York City restaurant will be deported, government officials said Monday.
Jack Reimer was found to have participated in a World War II massacre of Jewish civilians and in the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. He had admitted being present during the massacre but claimed he was forced to follow German orders after being captured in the Soviet Union.
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I wonder why this didn't turn up when he got his citizenship in the 1950's.
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Interesting....but what is Germany gonna do with this old man? Besides, shouldn't we be spending greater effort, time, and $ lookin' for modern-day terrorists residing secretly in this country?
Bush's fault I am sure....
Deport this guy to an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific.
NEVER FORGET
The Japanese did not have as much to trade as did the Germans.
Rockets, the Cold War.
how about Islamic sympathizers?
So what?
The guy shouldnt have been in the country anymore than any illegal immigrant.
How was the soup?
Reimer came to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1959.
I never said he was.
Dollars to donuts some developer wants his land for condos and this is now relavent. Or I'm just cynical.
Exactly, this is getting to be an absurd use of valuable government resources that could be used against possible future terrorist attacks. If someone was twenty years old in 1941 they would now be eighty four years old. How many twenty year olds were in positions of authority? So we are running down a bunch of octogenarians who did what they were told to do...just like the new Pope. The Pope got lucky and was assigned to an anti-aircraft battery after leaving the Hitler Youth.
From the article: Since 1979, the U.S. Department of Justice's program to identify Nazi war criminals has won cases against 99 people for their roles in Nazi-sponsored persecution and has led to 170 people being barred from entering the United States.
I understand the policy but it seems to have caught a minor number of people.
Figure that Axis Sally, who lied to captured US troops and told them she was a Red Cross nurse when she interviewed them for Nazi radio and broadcast propaganda throughout the war AND was convicted of treason spent only a few years behind bars, later becoming a school teacher over here.
Some Nazis are bad but the only really vile ones carried guns, is that it?
President Reagan visited an SS graveyard. Sort of sends a mixed message there even if it was in the name of "diplomacy" as he was being shown Germany.
Have to ask yourself, do you feel any safer?
Why do we permit President Clinton to reappraise terrorists of the 1970s (who he released from jail) and the 1990s (the KLA who were declared NOT a terrorist organization)?
Some criminals pose more of a threat than others. I'm sure that some war criminals face their own inner hell at times. Even those who fought for America and did not wrong are haunted by the memories of the invasions which killed many of their friends.
And as to why permit Germany but not Japanese criminals. We DID shelter Japanese scientists who conducted biological warfare tests during WWII. Then again, should people with such lethal knowledge be permitted to pass such research over to the Soviets?
Camp 731 is the "other" medical attrocity experimentation camp that people don't know about. Thousands were killed.
"Never Forget" is what grips the Christians and Muslims in the Balkans and the Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East. On a personal level, I really don't give a rip what anyone did to anyone's grandmother 65 years ago, including my own, and neither should anyone else.
How about Peter Jennings? You do realize that people must take a loyalty oath to become sworn citizens. An oath in which they recant their allegience to other nations.
Peter is still quite proud and open about "also" being a Canadian citizen.
Or is it only a lil' white lie and so it is okay? Not like he lied about holding a gun at the scene of a massacre.
I would like to see more prosecution of those who held guns at the Waco massacre.
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